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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS
Area 10,927 acres
Population 1961 census 295,893
Population 1965—Registrar General's mid-1965 estimate 294,850
Number of structurally separate dwellings occupied (1961 census) 81,866
Number of private households (1961 census) 97,701
Rateable value (all hereditaments) 1st April 1965 £19,794,781
Product of a penny rate, financial year 1965/66 £80,022
Live births
Number 6,436
Rate per 1,000 population (crude) 21.8
(adjusted) 19.9
Illegitimate live births per cent, of total live births 14.0
Stillbirths
Number 117
Rate per 1,000 total live births and stillbirths 18.2
Total live and stillbirths 6,553
Infant deaths (deaths under 1 year) 128
Infant mortality rates
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 19.9
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births 18.8
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live births 26.5
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000 total live births) 13.2
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000 total live births) 11.7
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under 1 week combined per 1,000 total
live and still births) 29.3
Maternal mortality (including abortion)
Number of deaths 3
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 0.46
Deaths 2,960
Death-rate per 1,000 population (crude) 10.0
(adjusted) 10.9
Deaths from cancer (all forms) 681
Death rate from cancer (all forms) per 1,000 population 2.3
BIRTHS
In 1965, 6,436 live births were registered, giving a crude birth rate of 21.8 per thousand estimated
population. The Registrar General provides area comparability factors for use with crude birth and death
rates which make 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. When the local crude rates are multiplied by the comparability
factor, they are comparable with the rates for England and Wales or with the corresponding adjusted rate
for any other area. When the birth factor of 0.91 is applied to the crude birth rate, the standardised rate is
19.9 which is a little above the provisional rate for England and Wales, which was 18.1 per thousand
population.
The percentage of illegitimate live births fell slightly from 14.5 in 1964 to 14.0. This means that
one in every seven babies born in Brent was illegitimate. This is about the same as for London as a whole,
but twice the National figure.
STILLBIRTHS
117 babies were stillborn, giving a rate of 18.2 per thousand live and stillbirths, a little above the provisional
rate for England and Wales which was 15.7.