London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Twickenham 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Table 1
| Area in acres | 7,078 | ||||||||
| Population (preliminary census return figure 1951) | 105,645 | ||||||||
| Civilian population - estimated to mid-year (as supplied by the Registrar-General) | 103,600 | ||||||||
| Number of inhabited houses | 31,221 | ||||||||
| Rateable value | £1,914,343 | ||||||||
| Sum represented by a penny rate | £7,237.6.5 | ||||||||
| Total | M. | F. | |||||||
| Live Births-Legitimate | 1319 | 696 | 623 | ||||||
| Illegitimate | 52 | 26 | 26 | ||||||
| Total | 1371 | 722 | 649 | ||||||
| Live Birth rate per 1,000 of estimated Civilian Population | 13.23 | ||||||||
| Adjusted Live Birth rate ... ... ... ... ... | 13.63 | ||||||||
| Total | M. | F. | |||||||
| Still Births-Legitimate | 21 | 11 | 10 | ||||||
| Illegitimate | 1 | - | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 22 | 11 | 11 | ||||||
| Still Birth rate per 1,000 live and still births | 15.79 | ||||||||
| Total Live and Still Births | 1,393 | ||||||||
| Infant Deaths (under 1 year of age) | |||||||||
| Total | M. | F. | |||||||
| Legitimate | 22 | 13 | 9 | ||||||
| Illegitimate | 1 | 1 | - | ||||||
| Total | 23 | 14 | 9 | ||||||
| Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births | 16.78 | ||||||||
| Legitimate Infant mortality rate per 1,000 legitimate live births | 16.68 | ||||||||
| Illegitimate Infant mortality rate per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 19.23 | ||||||||
| Neo-Natal deaths | Under 4 weeks of age | Under 1 week of age | |||||||
| Total | M. | F. | Total | il/„ | F. | ||||
| Legitimate | 16 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 5 | |||
| Illegitimate | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | |||
| Total | 17 | 11 | 6 | 15 | 10 | 5 | |||
| Neo-Natal mortality rate per 1,000 live births | 12.40 | ||||||||
| Early Neo-mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000 total live births) | 10.94 | ||||||||
| Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under 1 week combined per 1,000 total still and live births) | 26.56 | ||||||||
| Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births | 3.79 | ||||||||
| Maternal deaths | Nil | ||||||||
| Maternal mortality rate per 1.000 live and still births | Nil | ||||||||
| Deaths | M. | F. | 1,256 | ||||||
| 624 | 632 | ||||||||
| Crude death rate per 1,000 of estimated civilian population | 12.12 | ||||||||
| Adjusted death rate | 11.51 | ||||||||