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Births.
The number of live births registered was 1,952 as compared
with 1,931 for the year 1936, equivalent to a birth rate of 14.8 per
1,000 of the population—14.4 for the previous year.
The live birth rates in the various Wards were as follows
Manor Park
13.5
Little Ilford
17.9
Woodgrange
11.7
Plashet
13.0
Kensington
14.8
Castle
12.6
Central
12.2
Wall End
14.4
Greatfield
10.4
South
14.5
Deaths.
The number of deaths was 1,422 as compared with 1,42,1 for
the year 1936. The death rate was 10.8, or 0.2 greater than that
of the previous year. Of the total deaths 723 or 50.8 per cent.
died in institutions.
The number of residents who died outside the area and whose
deaths were assigned to this Borough was 676. Seventy-eight
deaths of non-residents occurred.
The standardised death rate, that is the rate adjusted to
compare with the crude death rate of the country as a whole, or
with the mortality of any local area, was 11.8 (1936—11.6). This
figure is arrived at by multiplying the crude death rate (10.8)
by an adjusting factor, that for East Ham being 1.10.

Infantile Mortality.
Deaths of infants under one year of age numbered 95—equivalent
to an infant mortality rate of 48 per thousand live births—
compared with the rate of 50 for the previous year. The rate for
England and Wales is 58.