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VITAL STATISTICS
Area in Acres 2,594
Population (Census 1951) 105,978
Population (Registrar General's Estimate,1958) 98,760
Assessable Value for General Rate Purposes £1,271,674
General Rate in the £ (1958/59) 20s.1d
The Registrar-General's mid-year 1958 estimate of population (viz., 98,760) has
been used for the calculation of the following statistics:-
Live Births 1,252
Live Birth Rate per 1,000 population 12.67
Stillbirths 29
Stillbirth rate per l,000 total (live and stillbirths) 22.63
Total Live and Stillbirths 1,281
Infant Deaths 31
Infant Mortality rate per 1,000 live births 25.87
" " " per 1,000 legitimate births 25.04
" " " per 1,000 illegitimate births 18.51
Neo-natal Mortality Rate (first four week) per 1,000 related live births 19.16
Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (first week) per 1,000 related live births 16.77
Peri natal Mortality Rate (stillbirths and deaths during the first week)
per 1,000 total still and live births 39.03
Percentage of illegitimate live births 4.31%
Maternal Deaths (including abortion) -
Maternal Mortality Rate (including abortion) per 1,000 total live births -
Total Deaths 1,338
Death Rate 13.54
Natural Decrease of Population 86
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 RegistrarGeneral
has issued the following comparability factors for Leyton.
Area comparability factor for births 0.98
Area comparability factor for deaths 0.87
These factors, when applied to the crude rates, produce the following
adjusted rates
Live Births 12.42
Deaths 11.77
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