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Tottenham 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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GENERAL STATISTICS
AREA OF DISTRICT IN ACRES 3,013
POPULATION: Census 8th April, 1951 126,929
Estimate of Registrar General of Population -
Mid-year, 1958 117,700
APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF DWELLINGS IN DISTRICT 30,790
RATEABLE VALUE OF DISTRICT at 1st April, 1958 £1,742,841
SUM REPRESENTED BY PENNY RATE at 1st April, 1958 £7,030
LIVE BIRTHS:
Legitimate 1,626
Illegitimate 122 1,748
Birth Rate (per 1,000 population) 14.86
STILL BIRTHS 28
DEATHS 1,319
Death Rate (per 1,000 population) 11.21
Infantile death rate (per 1,000 live births) 21.74
Maternal death rate (per 1,000 live and
still-births) 0.563
COMPARABILITY FACTORS:
Deaths 1.07
Births 0.98
NOTE: Detailed vital statistics appear
on pages 53 to 61 in the
Statistical Summary)