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1. RAINFALL
Total rainfall registered in the district during the
year was 16. 62 inches; the greatest fall in 24 hours was
registered on 21st May, 1. 30 of an inch. December 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 1.00 for the birth rate and
.99 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 ofbirths registered (adjusted for inward
and outward transfers) during the year was 2,216.
Males Females
Legitimate 1,087 1,047
Illegitimate 40 42
i.e., 3.7 per cent. of the births registered were
illegitimate.
The percentage of illegitimate births registered in
the previous 10 years was 3. 3 (1958), 2.7, 2.8, 2.6, 2.2,
3. 0, 3. 9, 2. 9, 3. 1, 2.4.