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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 19.86 inches; the
greatest fall in 24 hours was registered on 14th March, 1964, 1.32 inches.
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 for the year 1964 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 2,994.
Males Females
Legitimate 1,437 1,389
Illegitimate 82 86
i-e. 5.6 per cent of the births registered were illegitimate.
The percentage of illegitimate births registered in the previous 10
years was 5.1 (1963), 3.8, 3.7, 3.3, 2.7, 2.8, 2.6, 2.2, 3.0.