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1. Rainfall.
Total rainfall registered in the district during the year was 30.19 inches;
the greatest fall in 24 hours was registered on 5th September, 1.48 of an
inch. June was the wettest month.
2. Comparability Factor—Births and Deaths.
The Registrar-General supplies each town with figures known as the
"area comparability factor" in connection with the birth and death rates.
These factors make 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 death rate area comparability factors are also
adjusted specifically to take account of the presence of any residential
institutions in each area, and the birth rate area comparability factors are
adjusted specifically to take account of the presence of sterile population
in institutions for the mentally ill or mentally deficient in each area.
The figures for Ilford are 100 for the birth rate and .97 for the death
rate, and these are used in calculating these rates in Table 1A.
When local crude birth and death rates have been adjusted (by multiplication
by the appropriate area comparability factors) they are comparable
with the crude rate for England and Wales or with the corresponding
adjusted rate for any other area.
3. Births.
The number of births registered (adjusted for inward and outward
transfers) during the year was 2,228.
Males Females
Legitimate 1,134 1,021
Illegitimate 34 39
i.e., 3.3 per cent of the births registered were illegitimate.
The percentage of illegitimate births registered in the previous 10 years
was 2.7 (1957), 2.8, 2.6, 2.2, 3.0, 3.9, 2.9, 3.1, 2.4, 3.2.
The adjusted birth rate, calculated on the estimated population of
179,000 is 12-45 per 1,000.
4. Deaths.
The total number of deaths of Ilford residents was 1,985. This is
obtained by taking the total number of deaths registered in the district
(1,622), subtracting the deaths of non-residents, occuring in the district
(241), and adding the deaths of Ilford residents registered as having died
in other districts (604).
The number of deaths of non-residents registered in the district was
as follows:—
King George Hospital 88
Chadwell Heath Hospial 23
Claybury Hospital71
Goodmayes Hospital 24
Other Non-residents 35
Total 241