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Walthamstow 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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Extracts from Vital Statistics.—The Registrar-General's midyear 1958 estimate of the home population (viz., 114,000) has been used for the calculation of all vital statistics.
| Live Births | Totals | Male | Female | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate | 1,247 | 653 | 594 | Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated home population | 11.3 | |
| Illegitimate | 50 | 28 | 22 | |||
| Totals | 1,297 | 681 | 616 | |||
| Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births | 3.8 | |||||
| Stillbirths | 28 | Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births | 21.1 | |||
| Deaths | 1,170 | Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated home population | 10.2 | |||
Deaths from puerperal causes:—
Puerperal Sepsis Deaths Nil
Other Puerperal Causes Nil
death rate of infants under one year of age:—
All infants per 1,000 live births 15.4
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 16.0
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births Nil
Deaths from measles (all ages) 1
Deaths from whooping cough (all ages) Nil
Deaths from diarrhoea (under two years of age) Nil
Pulmonary tuberculosis death rate 0.06
Non-Pulmonary tuberculosis death rate Nil
The natural increase of population, i.e., excess of births over
Deaths was 127.
Deaths.— The Registrar-General's classification of causes of
death by sex totals is given.
The total number of deaths in 1958 (1,170) compares with
d,324 in 1957, the respective death rates being 10.2 and 11.4 per
1,000 population.
The comparability.factors for Walthamstow are given by the
Registrar-General as follows:—
Comparability factor for births 1.00
Comparability factor for deaths 1.07
The above factors, when applied to the crude rates, produce
the following adjusted rates:—
Live births 11.3
Deaths 10.9