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8.
POPULATION
The Registrar General's estimate of the total population of the
Urban District, mid-year 1964, was 82,520, which is an increase of
950 over the figure for the previous year. This population figure
gives a density of 3.96 persons to the acre.
The natural increase of population, measured by excess of births
over deaths, was 701.
BIRTHS
1,378 live births appertaining to the area were registered
during 1964, of which 706 were males and 672 females. 1,322 of these
births were legitimate and 56 illegitimate. The crude birth rate
for the Urban District was 16.7 per thousand total population, which
is an increase of 0.2 over the rate for the previous year and is
below the rate of 18.4 for England and Wales as a whole.
The illegitimate birth rate was 42.2 per thousand live and
still births, or 4.3 per cent of the total live births. There
were 56 illegitimate live births of which 27 were males and 29 females.
There were four more illegitimate live births in 1964 than in
the previous year.
21 stillbirths were registered giving a rate of 15.0 per
thousand live and still births and 0.25 per thousand total population.
9 of the stillbirths were male and 12 females.
The stillbirth rate for England and Wales as a whole was 16.3 per
thousand total births.
INFANT MORTALITY.
There were 19 deaths of infants under one year of age in 1964
which is three more than the figure for the previous year. The infant
mortality rate for the year was 13.8 per thousand total live births
which is well below the figure of 20.0 for the country as a whole,
MATERNAL MORTALITY
There was one maternal death in the area during 1964 giving a
maternal mortality rate of 0.7 per thousand total live and Still-births. The
maternal mortality rate for England and Wales as a whole was 0.26.
DEATHS.
677 deaths appertaining to the Urban District were registered during
the year, giving a death rate of 8.2 per thousand total population. The
adjusted rate for use when comparing one area with another is 9.3
The rate for England and Wales as a whole was 11.3.
Of the Orpington deaths registered, 354 were males and 323 females.