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VITAL STATISTICS
Area 4,812 acres
Public open spaces 719 acres
Population
Estimate of Registrar General at mid-year 1967 249,140
Density per acre 51.8
Rateable Value
Rateable value of the Borough £14,681,705
Estimated product of a penny rate £57,200
No. of inhabited homes 66,034
Marriages 1,620
Births and Deaths
Legitimate
Illegitimate
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Live Births
2,368
2,163
4,531
424
417
841
2,792
2,580
5.372
Still Births
33
27
60
7
3
10
40
30
70
Live and Still Births
2,401
2,190
4,591
431
420
851
2,832
2,610
5,442
Deaths (all causes)
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1,402
1,303
2,705
Infant Mortality
48
37
85
13
9
22
61
46
107
Neo-natal Mortality
37
26
63
11
6
17
48
32
80
Early Neo-natal Mortality
28
22
50
8
5
13
36
27
63
Perinatal Mortality
61
49
110
15
8
23
76
57
133
Maternal Mortality
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3
3
Crude birth rate per 1,000 population 21.6
Adjusted birth rate (area comparability factor 0.91) 19.7
Illegitimate birth rate per cent of total live births 15.7
Illegitimate birth rate for Greater London 11.4
Illegitimate birth rate for England and Wales 8.4
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 live and still births 12.9
Death rate
Crude Death rate per 1,000 population 10.9
Adjusted Death rate (area comparability factor 1.10) 12.0
Infant Mortality rate per 1,000 live births 19.9
(Legitimate 18.8, Illegitimate 26.2)
Neo-natal Mortality rate per 1,000 live births 14.9
(Legitimate 13.9, Illegitimate 20.2)
Early Neo-natal Mortality rate per 1,000 live births 11.7
(Legitimate 11.0, Illegitimate 15.5)
Perinatal Mortality rate per 1,000 live and still births 24.4
(Legitimate 24.0, Illegitimate 27.0)
Maternal Mortality rate per 1,000 live and still births 0.6
Last year I drew attention to the infant mortality rate of 22.2 per 1,000
live births which was above the national average, but comparable with other
London Boroughs. This year the rate has fallen to 19.9 but it is still higher
than the rate for England and Wales.
The total number of infant deaths fell from 127 to 107 but the number of
babies who survived the first week and yet died during the first year of life
dropped only from 48 to 44.