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Leyton 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]

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VITAL STATISTICS
Area in acres 2,594
Population (Census 1961) 93,357
Population (Registrar-General's Estimate, 1961) 93,360
Assessable Value for General Rate purposes £1,373,638
General Rate in the £ (1961/62) 24s.5d

The Registrar-General's mid-year 1961 estimate of population (viz., 93,360 has been used for the calculation of the following statistics:-

Live Births1, 342
Live Birth Rate per 1,000 population14.37
Stillbirths21
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total (live and stillbirths)15.41
Total Live and Stillbirths1, 363
Infant Deaths40
Infant Mortality rate per 1,000 live births29.81
„ „ „ „ 1,000 legitimate births30.35
„ „ „ „ 1,000 illegitimate births22. 22
Neo-Natal Mortality Rate (first four weeks) Per 1,000 related live births26.08
Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (first week) per 1,000 related live births23.85
Peri-natal Mortality Rate (stillbirths and deaths during the first week) per 1,000 total still and live births38. 89
Percentage of illegitimate live births6.71
Maternal Deaths (including abortion)1
Maternal Mortality Rate (including abortion) per 1,000 total live births)0. 75
Total Deaths1,406
Death Rate15.06
Natural Decrease of Population64

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 1.01
Area comparability factor for deaths 0.79

These factors, when applied to the crude rates, produce the following adjusted rates:-

Live Births14.51
Deaths11.9.

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