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Female 43 Drug
70 Pall at home
60 Drugs
82 Pall at home
34Burns
83 Fall at home
82 Fall at home
36 Drugs (addict)
Male 87 Gas poisoning
32 Crushed by falling object
67 Fall at home
70 Drugs
75 Fall at home.
Comparative figures from deaths from violent causes over the last 10 years
are as follows:-
1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954
28 27 22 32 26 23 23 26 27 27
Four residents died through involvement in road accidents. The ages of
these cases were: -
Males:18, 33, 61
Femaless:79
One of these died as a result of an accident within the Borough, a pedal
cyclist (aged 61). In all, four persons, including residents of other places,
died as a result of road accidents occurring in Brentford and Chiswick; one
motor cyclist, one motor car passenger, one pedal cyclist and one pedestrian.
None of these were children.
The number who died as a result of road accidents within the Borough in
1961 was 15, and in 1962 it was 9, so over these two last years there has been
a steady improvement. But although the deaths were fewer, the number injured
to a greater. or lesser degree was greatly increased i.e. 578 persons were
killed, or injured, in road accidents on Brentford and Chiswick roads during
1963, compared with 482 in 1962, 534 in 1961, and 512 in 1960.
Birth Rate
During 1963, the number of live births recorded was 1,044, 932 legitimate
and 112 illegitimate. There were 14 still-births, 11 male and 3 female.
The Birth Rate rose again from 18.41 in 1962 to 18.92 in 1963. To make an
approximate allowance for the way in which the sex and age distribution of the
local population differs from that for England and Wales as a whole, the birth
rate is multiplied by a comparability factor supplied by the Registrar-General.
This then gives a comparative birth rate of 17.41 compared with 18 2 for England
and Wales as a whole.
INFANT MORTALITY
There were 14 deaths of infants under 1 year of age, giving an infant mortality
rate of 13.41 for 1963. The local figure compares with an infant mortality
rate of 20.9 for England and Wales and is far below this and the Middlesex
County figure, the latter figure being 18.7.
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