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Barnes 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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SECTION 'A' — STATISTICS AND TABLES
The following statistical information relating to the Borough has
been completed on receipt of the Local and National Statistics issued
by the Registrar-General in connection with Population, Birth-rate,
Death-rates, Maternal Mortality, Infantile Mortality, and Incidence of
Notifiable Infectious Disease.
TABLE 1. —STATISTICAL SUMMARY, 1959.
| Area | 2,650 acres | ||
| Population : — | |||
| Census, 1931 | 42,440 | ||
| Census, 1951 | 40,558 | ||
| Registrar General's estimate, mid-1959 | 38,880 | ||
| Rating : — | |||
| Number of inhabited houses | 12,324 | ||
| Rateable Value | £894,157 | ||
| Product of a penny rate | £3,560 | ||
| Mortality : | Males | Females | Total |
| Number of Deaths | 250 | 285 | 535 |
| Death Rate per 1,000 population :— | |||
| Uncorrected | 13.76 | ||
| Corrected (Comparability Factor 0.82) | 11.28 | ||
| Deaths from Cancer (all ages) | 100 | ||
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | NIL | ||
| Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) | NIL | ||
| Deaths from Diarrhoae (under 2 years of age) | 1 | ||
| Live Births: — | |||
| Number | 468 | ||
| Rate per 1,000 population | 12.04 | ||
| Illegitimate Live Births per cent of total live births | 4.49 | ||
| Stillbirths: — | |||
| Number | 8 | ||
| Rate per 1,000 total live and still births | 16.8 | ||
| Total Live and Still Births | 476 | ||
| Infant Deaths (deaths under 1 year) | 8 | ||
| Infant Mortality Rates: — | |||
| Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births | 17.1 | ||
| Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births | 15.66 | ||
| Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live | |||
| births | 47.6 | ||
| Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 4 week per | |||
| 1,000 total live births) | 14.9 | ||
| Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 1 week | |||
| per 1,000 total live births) | 14.9 | ||
| Perinatal Mortality Rate (stillbirths and deaths under | |||
| 1 week combined per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) | 31.5 | ||
| Maternal Mortality (including abortion): — | |||
| Number of deaths | NIL | ||
| Rate per 1,000 total live and still births | NIL | ||