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Crude death rate per 1,000 estimated total
population 12.2
Adjusted rate for comparison with other areas 11.1
(Area comparability factor for deaths = 0.91)
Death rate for Greater London per 1,000
population 11.6
Death rate for England and Wales 11.9
Tuberculosis death rates:
All forms (per 1,000 population) 0.03
Pulmonary (per 1,000 population) 0.03
Non-Pulmonary (per 1,000 population) 0.003
Cancer death rates:
All forms (per 1,000 population) 3.3
Lung and Bronchus (per 1,000 population) 0.9
Other forms (per 1,000 population) 2.4
Population
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population of the
Borough, mid-year, 1968, was 304,230, an increase of 1,570 over
the figure for the previous year. This figure gives a density of 7.7
persons to the acre.
The natural increase of population, measured by excess of
births over deaths, was 650. The figure for 1967 was 1,447.
Births
There were 4,359 live births allocated to the Borough during
1968, after adjustments for inward and outward transfers, this
being a decrease of 161 over the figure for the previous year.
Of the 4,359 live births, 3,636 occurred in hospital and 723 in
private dwellings. 2,267 of these births were males and 2.092
females.
The crude birth rate for the Borough was 14.3 per 1,000
population, and the adjusted rate, for use when comparing one
area with another was 14.4.
The birth rate for 1968 was 0.6 lower than that recorded for
the previous year, and is also well below the figures of 16.4 and
16.9 for Greater London and England and Wales respectively.
In addition to the live births, there were 55 stillbirths, representing
a rate of 12 per 1,000 total births. This rate is below that
of 13.5 for Greater London and 14 for the country as a whole.
The
figure for the Borough for 1967 was 14.0 per 1,000 total births.