[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council.

  • Essex (England). County Council.
Date:
1961
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Credit: [Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Infant Mortality— Number of deaths under one year 577 563 Rate per 1,000 live births (all infants) 18.5 18.6 Rate per 1,000 live births (legitimate infants) 18.2 18.6 Rate per 1,000 live births (illegitimate infants) 23.7 20.0 Neonatal (first four weeks) mortality rate 13.8 13.7 Early neonatal (first week) mortality rate - 12.5 11.9 Perinatal (stillbirths and first week) mortality rate 28-9 29.0 Maternal mortality (including abortion) — Number of deaths 7 6 Rate per 1,000 total births 0.22 0.20 Most of these statistics are commented upon in detail elsewhere in this Report. In Table I on page 103 there will be seen details of the population and principal vital statistics for the eleven Health Areas and the two County Districts with delegated powers. Tables II and III give details of deaths by cause. Figures are also given for other county districts. As in previous years, difficulty was experienced in calculating vital statistics for the Mid'Essex and Forest Health Areas due to the fact that each includes part of the Epping and Ongar Rural District. In general, vital statistics given for these two Health Areas refer to the Area less the portion of Epping and Ongar Rural District contained in it and in the tables the figures for the Rural District are given separately. Figures i for the Administrative County are unaffected by this arrangement. The remainder of this section is devoted largely to a discussion of the j figures in Tables I, II and III. Population The preliminary report on the 1961 census was published in June and gave j 1,859,449 as the population of the County on Census night, 23rd April. The 3 increase of population since the last census in 1951 was 258,120, the largest 3 increase for any local health authority in England and Wales. Only two } other authorities (Hertfordshire and Lancashire) had increases of over 150,000. ( The rate of increase (at 16.1%) was not so remarkable, being exceeded by r seven large and two small administrative counties and was less than half that j in Hertfordshire and Berkshire. The ratio of females to males was 1.057, , 7 compared with 1.080 in 1951 and a national rate (in 1961) of 1.066. In the intercensal period, the number of private households in the Adminis- - a trative County increased by 106,456, more than any other county (Lancashire >: 92,191, Kent 74,424 and Hertfordshire 74,040 being next in order) and the i number of dwellings by 144,180, a figure just exceeded by the Administrative a County of London, where the number of dwellings increased by 145,570 in i spite of a decrease of 11,252 in the number of households and a decrease of a 152,842 in the total population.