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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS
Area 10,927 acres
Population 1961 census 295,893
Population 1966—Registrar General's mid-1966 estimate 294,450
Number of structurally separate dwellings occupied (1961 census) 81,866
Number of private households (1961 census) 97,701
Rateable value (all hereditaments) 1st April 1966 £19,971,835
Product of a penny rate, financial year 1966/67 (estimated) £80,000
Live births
Number 6,374
Rate per 1,000 population (crude) 21.6
Rate per 1,000 population (adjusted) 19.7
Illegitimate live births per cent. of total live births 15.0
Stillbirths
Number 90
Rate per 1,000 total live births and stillbirths 13.9
Total live and stillbirths 6,464
Infant deaths (under 1 year) 123
Infant mortality rates
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 19.3
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births 20.1
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live births 14.6
Neo.natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000 total live births) 14.1
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000 total live births) 11.6
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under 1 week combined per 1,000 total
live and still births) 25.4
Maternal mortality (including abortion)
Number of deaths 3
Rate per 1,000 totall live and stillbirths 0.46
Deaths 2,955
Death-rate per 1,000 population (crude) 10.0
Death-rate per 1,000 population (adjusted) 10.9
Deaths from cancer (all forms) 613
Death rate from cancer (all forms) per 1,000 population 2.1
BIRTHS
In 1966, 6,374 live births were registered, giving a crude birth rate of 21.6 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 19.7 which is above the provisional rate for England and Wales, which was 17.7 per thousand population.
The percentage of illegitimate live births increased from 14.0 in 1965 to 15.0. This means that
one in every seven babies born in Brent was illegitimate.
STILL BIRTHS
90 babies were stillborn, giving a rate of 13.9 per thousand live and stillbirths, below the provisional
rate for England and Wales which was 15.4.