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VITAL STATISTICS
Area in Acres 2,594
Population (Census 1951) 105,978
Population (Registrar-General*s Estimate, 1957) 99,670
Assessable Value for General Rate purposes £1,270,116
General Rate in the £ (1957/58) 19s. 2d
The Registrar-General's mid-year 1957 estimate of population (viz., 99,670) has
been used for the calculation of the following statistics:-
Live Births =
Legitimate - Males 600
- Females 508
Illegitimate - Males 29
- Females 23
Total 1,160
Birth rate per 1,000 of population 11.64
Stillbirths
Males 18
Females 8
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 21.92
Deaths -
Males 609
Females 619
Total 1,228
Death rate per 1,000 12.32
Number of women dying from diseases and accidents of pregnancy and childbirth:-
From sepsis 0
From other causes 0
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) birth 0.00
Death rate of infants under one year of age:-
All infants per 1,000 live births 14.65
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 12.63
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 57.69
The natural decrease of population (i.e., excess of deaths over births)
was 68.
Comparability Factor
To make approximate allowance for the way in which the sex and age distribution of
the Borough population differs from that for England and Wales as a whole, the Registrar
Genera] has issued the following comparability factors for Leyton.
Area comparability factor for births 0.98
Area comparability factor for deaths 0.92
These factors, when applied to the crude rates, produce the following adjusted rates -
Live births 11.40
Deaths 11.33
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