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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
Hillingdon 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hillingdon]
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GENERAL STATISTICS
| Area—square miles | 42.5 |
| Population—Registrar-General's estimate for mid-year 1965 | 232,490 |
| Number of inhabited dwellings | 69,681 |
| Rateable value—as at 1st April, 1965 | £15,915,666 |
| Product of Penny Rate—1965—6 (estimated) | £65,810 |
VITAL STATISTICS
| Total Live Births: | Male | Female | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate | 1,919 | 1,779 | 3,698 | ||||||
| Illegitimate | 107 | 120 | 227 | ||||||
| Totals | 2,026 | 1,899 | 3,925 | ||||||
| Birth Rate per 1,000 population: | |||||||||
| Hillingdon | Crude | 16.9 | |||||||
| Corrected | 16.2 | ||||||||
| England and Wales | 18.0 | ||||||||
| Area Comparability Factor: | 0.96 | ||||||||
| 107 | 120 | 227 | |||||||
| Per cent. of total live births: | 5.8% | ||||||||
| Legitimate | 23 | 21 | 44 | ||||||
| Illegitimate | 4 | 3 | 7 | ||||||
| 27 | 24 | 51 | |||||||
| Rate per thousand live and still births: | Hillingdon | 12.8 | |||||||
| England and Wales | 15.8 | ||||||||
| Legitimate | 1,942 | 1,800 | 3,742 | ||||||
| Illegitimate | 111 | 123 | 234 | ||||||
| 2,053 | 1,923 | 3,976 | |||||||
| These births occurred as under: | |||||||||
| At home | 1,138 | 2 | |||||||
| In hospitals, nursing homes or other maternity establishments | 2,787 | 49 | |||||||
| 3,925 | 51 | ||||||||