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Redbridge 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Redbridge]

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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
(Land and Inland Water)
Area (in Acres) (Tidal Water ) 13,983
Registrar-General's Estimate of resident Population:-
June, 30th, 1969 244,800
Number of inhabited houses (April 1st, 1969) according to Rate Books 79,066
Rateable Value - April 1st, 1969 £12,996,517
Sum represented by a penny rate, April 1st, 1969 £52,900
General Rate in the £ — 1969-1970 —
Domestic Properties 14s.1d.
Mainly Domestic Properties 14s.9d.
Non-Domestic Properties 15s.4d.
The following figures as to unemployment were supplied by the Ministry of Labour (llford area only):
Males Females
As at 12th January, 1970 1,043 103
1969
Live Births 3,414
Live Birth rate per 1,000 population - Crude rate 13.94
Adjusted rate 14.36
Illegitimate Live Births per cent of total live births 6.09
Stillbirths 44
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 13
Total Live and Stillbirths 3,458
Infant deaths (under 1 year) 51
Total Infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 15
Legitimate Infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births 14
Illegitimate Infant deaths per 1 000 illegitimate live births 34
Neo-natal mortality rate per 1,000 live births (first four weeks) 10
Early Neo-natal mortality rate per 1,000 total live births (under one week)
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under one week combined per 1,000 total live
and stillbirths) 22
Maternal deaths (including abortion) Nil
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths Nil
Deaths (all causes) 2,776
Death rate per 1,000 population — Crude Rate 11,34
Adjusted rate 10.66
Comparability Factors — Birth rate 1.03
Death rate 0.94
Total rainfall 1969 21.81 inches
Greatest rainfall in any 24 hours (on 29.7.69) 1.70 inches