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Death Rates of Infants under 1 year of age.
All Infants per 1,000 live births 17.2
Legitimate Infants per 1,000 live legitimate births 16.8
Illegitimate Infants per 1,000 live illegitimate births 28.6
Comparative statistics for the year 1953.
Birth rate
(per 1,000 population),
Death rate
. (per 1,000
population).
Infant mortality
rate
(per 1,000
live births).
Live
Births
Still
Births
Orpington
14.8
0.26
9.8
17.2
England and Wales
15.5
0.35
11.4
26.8*
London Administrative County
17.5
0.38
12.5
24.8
*Per 1,000 related live births.
POPULATION.
The Registrar General's estimate of the total population (civilian
and non-civilian) of the Urban District, mid-year 1953, is 64,480,
which is an increase of 810 over that for the previous year. This population
figure gives a density of 3.09 persons to the acre.
The natural increase of population (measured by excess of births
over deaths) for the year was 293.
The following figures show how the population of the Urban
District has increased over the past ten years:—
1944 46,980
1945 49,610
1946 56,640
1947 58,080
1948 58,320
1949 59,500
1950 62,420
1951 62,850
1952 63,670
1953 64,480
BIRTHS.
The Birth Rate for 1953 is 14.4 per 1,000 total population, which
is a slight decrease on that for the previous year (14.7).
There were 927 live births registered during 1953, of which 469
were males and 458 females.
Birth rates for the past ten years are as under:—
1944 22.7
1945 17.8
1946 20.0
1947 19.0
1948 16.3
1949 16.5
1950 14.8
1951 14.9
1952 14.7
1953 14.4