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1. RAINFALL
Total rainfall registered in the district, taken as an average over the
stations in the five Parks, during the year was 23.04 inches; the greatest
fall in 24 hours was registered on 17th November, 1963, .96 of an inch.
November 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 for the year 1963 are 1.01 for the birth and
0.96 for the death rates respectively.
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 2,751.
Males Females
Legitimate 1,359 1,252
Illegitimate 77 63
1.e. 5.1 per cent of the births registered were illegitimate.
The percentage of illegitimate births registered in the previous 10
years was 4.5 (1962), 3.8, 3.7, 3.3, 2.7, 2.8, 2.6, 2.2, 3.0.
The adjusted birth rate, calculated on the estimated population
of 176,550 is 15.74 per 1,000.