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The number of deaths of illegitimate children was 2 out of a total1
of 108 illegitimate births, giving a mortality rate of 18 as compared
with a figure of 38 per 1,000 illegitimate live births for the year 1945.
Infantile mortality rates since 1942 are as follows:—
1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
East Ham 54 48 31 36 30
England & Wales 49 49 46 46 43
Illegitimate births and the illegitimate mortality rates since 1942
are tabulated below:—
1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
No. of illegitimate births 66 71 82 105 108
Mortality rate per 1,000 illegitimate
live births 29 56 48 38 18
Neo-Natal Mortality.
Children dying under the age of one month totalled 50 equal to a
neo-natal mortality of 19.4 per 1,000 live births.
These rates from 1942 are indicated below:—
1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
35.4 23.5 17.3 19.5 19.4
Maternal Mortality.
The number of maternal deaths was 2, the maternal mortality rate
for 1946 was 0.75 per 1,000 live and still births.

Population.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population to the middle
of 1946 is 113,570, which is an increase of 18,340 compared with that
for the year 1945. The rates per 1,000 of the population mentioned in.
this report are based on this estimate.