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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS
Area 10,927 acres
Population 1961 census 295,893
Population 1967—Registrar General's mid.1967 estimate 293,370
Number of structurally separate dwellings occupied (1961 census) 81,866
Number of private households (1961 census) 97,701
Rateable value (all hereditaments) 1st April 1967 £20,145,235
Product of a penny rate, financial year 1967/68 (estimated) £81,250
Live births
Number 6,097
Rate per 1,000 population (crude) 20.8
Rate per 1,000 population (adjusted) 18.9
Illegitimate live births per cent, of total live births 14 . 6
Stillbirths
Number 100
Rate per 1,000 total live births and stillbirths 16.1
Total live and stillbirths 6,197
Infant deaths (under 1 year) 123
Infant mortality rate
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 20.1
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births 19.8
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live births 22.5
Neo.natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000 total live births) 12.3
Early neo.natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000 total live births) 97
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under 1 week combined per 1,000 total
live and still births) 25.7
Maternal mortality (including abortion)
Number of deaths 1
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 0 16
Deaths 2,874
Death-rate per 1,000 population (crude) 9.8
Death-rate per 1,000 population (adjusted) 10.8
Deaths from cancer (all forms) 6.71
Death rate from cancer (all forms) per 1,000 population 2.3
BIRTHS
In 1967, 6,097 live births were registered, giving a crude birth rate of 20.8 per thousand estimated
population compared with a rate of 21.6 in 1966. 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 18.9 which is above the provisional rate for England and Wales, which was 17.2
per thousand population.
The percentage of illegitimate live births decreased slightly from 15.0 to 14.6. This still means,
however, that one in every seven babies born in Brent was illegitimate.
STILL BIRTHS
One hundred babies were stillborn, giving a rate of 16.1 per thousand live and stillbirths, above the
provisional rate for England and Wales which was 14.8.