Purfleet Urban District (UD) : Life & Death Statistics

Created: 1929   Abolished: 1936

These simple graphs compare Purfleet with national trends:

Time Series Period Covered Description
Fertility Rate 1931 Live births per thousand women aged 20 to 49. The General Fertility Rate is usually defined relativ…
Illegitimacy Rate 1929 to 1936 Illegitimate Births as a percentage of all births. Until quite recently, vital registration statist…
Infant Mortality Rate 1929 to 1936 Deaths per thousand live births. This is a good overall measure of the health of a population, alt…
Standardised Mortality Ratio 1931 The actual number of deaths as a percentage of the expected number, computed from mortality rates f…

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

Time Series Period Covered Variables (number of categories)
Births by legitimacy 1929 to 1936 Legitimacy (2)
Births by legitimacy & sex 1929 to 1936 Legitimacy (2)
Sex (2)
Births by sex 1929 to 1936 Sex (2)
Deaths by sex 1929 to 1936 Sex (2)
Infant Deaths 1929 to 1936 Infant Deaths (4)
Total Births 1929 to 1936 Total Live Births (1)
Total Deaths 1929 to 1936 Total Deaths (3)

Read more about how we hold statistics here.