[Report 1968] / Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council.

  • Derbyshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1968
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Credit: [Report 1968] / Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    16-63 6-77 153 13-40 11,414 198 Live birth rate per 1,000 population Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births Stillbirths—Number —Rate per 1,000 total live and still-births Total live- and still-births Infant deaths (deaths under one year) Infant mortality rates— Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live-births Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live-births Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live- births Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under four weeks per 1,000 total live-births) Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under one week per 1,000 total live-births) .. Perinatal mortality rate (still-births and deaths under one week combined per 1,000 total live- and still-births) .. Maternal mortality (including abortion)— Number of deaths Rate per 1,000 total live- and still-births Number of deaths from all causes .. Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated population Deaths from Cancer (all ages) Death rate from Cancer The numbers of deaths from various causes in each Sanitary District are given in Appendix II to this Report. The headings under which the deaths are classified have been revised by the General Register Office. Hitherto they have been analysed into 36 causes of death (the Registrar-General’s Abridged List): the new classification, however, is basically the International Abbreviated List of 50 causes, with some sub-divisions to improve comparability with the Abridged List, although it is pointed out that exact comparability should not be assumed. 17-58 17-05 24-90 12-34 10-30 23-57 1 0-087 8,145 12-63 1,434 2-21 INFANT MORTALITY RATE (Infants dying under one year per thousand live births) Year Rate 1930 61-4 1940 55-4 1950 30-19 1960 19-74 1961 19-93 1962 21-60 1963 19-26 1964 17-74 1965 17-20 1966 17-25 1967 17-53 1968 17-58* *The rate for England and Wales in 1968 was 18-0 (provisional)