1989 Annual Report of Vital Statistics Department of Health, City of New Haven
 

TABLE IV
Total Deaths, Births and Residents
per Neighborhood
New Haven: 1989

    Total Total
  Total Population Deaths Rate Births Rate
Central Business District 592 5 8.4 8 13.5
Long Wharf-Church St. South 1,523 39 25.6 34 22.3
Hill 15,936 178 11.2 555 34.8
Dwight 6,132 74 12.1 124 20.2
Edgewood-West River 8,424 101 12.0 178 21.1
Westville 6,719 52 7.7 91 13.5
West Hills 9,186 98 10.7 170 18.5
Beaver Hills 5,771 36 6.2 81 14.0
Newhallville 7,796 83 10.6 204 26.2
Dixwell 6,944 60 8.6 116 16.7
Yale 5,771 6 1.0 11 1.9
Prospect Hill 4,645 21 4.5 100 21.5
East Rock 8,302 87 10.5 73 8.8
Wooster Square 3,612 44 12.2 60 16.6
Fair Haven 13,895 161 11.6 369 26.6
Heights 10,274 164 16.0 194 18.9
East Shore (Annex) 10,570 119 11.3 123 11.6
Unknown 8 31 0.0 49 0.0
  _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
Overall 126,100 1,359 10.8 2,540 20.1

There was a slight decrease in the death rate from 1988 with a rate of 10.6 to a rate of 10.4 in 1989. The birth rate decreased slightly from 19.9 in 1988 to 19.5 in 1989.

 
This document was digitized on March 15, 1999 by Andrew Swan as part of the New Haven Health Project.
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