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Neo-natal mortality rate per 1,000 live births 8.9
Neo-natal mortality rate for England and Wales 12.3
Early Neo-natal mortality rate (first weak) per 1,000 live
births 7.6
Peri-natal mortality rate per 1,000 live and still births 20.6
Maternity Mortality:-
Maternal deaths Nil
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and still births Nil
Maternal mortality rate for England and Wales 0.2
Deaths:-
Male Female Total
1,060 1,115 2,175
Death rate per 1,000 population
Crude Death Rate 10.4
Comparability Factor 1.04
Adjusted Death Rate 10.8
Death rate for England and Wales 11.9
Population
The estimated mid-year population was 208,220 which was an
increase of 20 as compared with the figure for 1967. The natural increase
in population—excess of births over deaths—was 986 and the number of
occupied houses and flats rose by 279 to 68,725.
Births
During the year 3,161 live births (1,652 male and 1,509 female) were
registered, giving a crude birth rate of 15.2 per 1,000 population. Correction
of this rate by the application of the Registrar General's area comparability
factor gives a birth rate of 15.5 as compared with the birth
rate of 16-9 per 1,000 population for England and Wales. 223 of the
live births were illegitimate giving a percentage of total births of 7.1.
Total number of live and stillbirths 3,203
Local births (domiciliary confinement) 485