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1. Rainfall.
Total rainfall registered in the district during the year was 23.37 inches;
the greatest fall in 24 hours was registered on 11th June, 1.84 of an
inch. August was the wettest month.
2. Registrar General's Memorandum on Transfer of Births,
Deaths and Stillbirths, dated 17th October, 1952.
The Registrar General supplies each town with figures known as the
"comparability factor" in connection with the birth and death rates. To
make an approximate allowance for the way in which the sex and age
distribution of the local population differs from that for England and Wales
as a whole, the crude birth and death rates for the area are multiplied by
the appropriate area comparability factor. The figures for Ilford are .98
for the birth rate and .95 for the death rate, and these are used in calculating
these rates in Table la. When local crude birth and death rates have
been so adjusted, they are comparable with the crude rate for England and
Wales or with the corresponding adjusted rate for any other area.

i.e., 2.8 per cent. of the births registered were illegitimate.
The percentage of illegitimate births registered in the previous 10 years
was 2.6 (1955), 2.2, 3.0, 3.9, 2.9, 3.1, 2.4, 3.2, 3.3, 3.1.
The adjusted birth-rate, calculated on the estimated population of
180,600 is 11.48 per 1,000.
4. Deaths.
The total number of deaths of Ilford residents was 2,086. This is
obtained by taking the total number of deaths registered in the district
(1,676), subtracting the deaths of non-residents occurring in the district
(162), and adding the deaths of Ilford residents registered as having died
in other districts (572).