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STATISTICAL INFORMATION
VITAL STATISTICS
Area of Borough (in acres) 9,805
Population (Registrar General's Estimate, midyear 1968) 236,900
Number of Rate Assessments at 31st December 1968 93,747
Total Assessable Value £12,082,290
Product of a penny rate £48,350
Live Births: WALTHAM FOREST ENGLAND & WALES
MALES FEMALES
Legitimate 1935 1788 3723
Illegitimate 160 170 330
4053
Live Birth Rate per 1,000 population 17.1 16.9
" as adjusted by comparability factor (1.06) 18.1
Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births 8.1
Still births:
Number (30 males : 24 females) 54
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 13.1 14
Total live and stillbirths 4107
Infant deaths (deaths under one year) 74
Infant Mortality Rates:
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 18.2 18
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate
live births 7.4
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate
live births 27.2
Neo-Natal Mortality Rate (deaths under four weeks per
1,000 total live births) 11.8 12.3
Early Neo-Natal Mortality Rate (deaths under one week
per 1,000 total live births) 10.1 10.5
Perinatal Mortality Rate (stillbirths and deaths under
one week combined per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) 23.1 25
Maternal Mortality:
Number of deaths I
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 0.24
Deaths:
Total number 3089
Death rate per 1,000 population 13.03 11.9
" as adjusted by comparability factor (0.88) I 1.46
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