Billingham Urban District (UD) : Life & Death Statistics

Created: 1923   Abolished: 1968

These simple graphs compare Billingham with national trends:

Time Series Period Covered Description
Fertility Rate 1931 to 1961 Live births per thousand women aged 20 to 49. The General Fertility Rate is usually defined relativ…
Illegitimacy Rate 1923 to 1967 Illegitimate Births as a percentage of all births. Until quite recently, vital registration statist…
Infant Mortality Rate 1923 to 1967 Deaths per thousand live births. This is a good overall measure of the health of a population, alt…
Perinatal Mortality Rate 1958 to 1967 Stillbirths plus deaths under 1 week per thousand live births. This is the best measure of obstetri…
Standardised Mortality Ratio 1931 to 1951 The actual number of deaths as a percentage of the expected number, computed from mortality rates f…

We hold these detailed statistics for Billingham, which we graph and tabulate here:

Time Series Period Covered Variables (number of categories)
Births by legitimacy 1923 to 1967 Legitimacy (2)
Births by legitimacy & sex 1923 to 1967 Legitimacy (2)
Sex (2)
Births by sex 1923 to 1967 Sex (2)
Deaths by sex 1923 to 1967 Sex (2)
Infant Deaths 1923 to 1967 Infant Deaths (4)
Total Births 1923 to 1967 Total Live Births (1)
Total Deaths 1923 to 1967 Total Deaths (3)

Read more about how we hold statistics here.