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STATISTIOS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
AREA. 2,136 acres.
POPULATION.
Census 1931 155,089
Registrar-General's estimated
Civil Population 1941 52,570

STILL BIRTHS.
Total. Males. Females.
21 12 9 Rate per 1,000 total births 21.2
DEATHS.
total. Males. Females.
1165 675 490 Death rate per 1,000 of the
estimated Civil Population 22.2
DEATHS FROM PUERPERAL CAUSES.
Puerperal sepsis 1 ) Rate per 1,000 total births
Other puerperal causes - ) 1.47
INFANTILE MORTALITY RATE.
All infants per 1,000 live births 48
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate births 46
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate births 103
CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS.
The causes of deaths, classified by the RogistrarGeneral
are as follows typhoid and paratyphoid fevers 2; cerebrospinal
fever 2; scarlet fever 0; whooping oough 2; diphtheria 3;
tuberculosis of respiratory system 71; other forms of tuberculosis 10;
syphilitic diseases 13; influenza 9; measles 2; acute poliomyelitis
and polioencephalitis 0; acute infectious encephalitis 1; cancor of
(a) buccal cavity and oesophagus.11;(b) uterus 5; (c) stomach and
duodenum 17; (d) breast 9; (a) all other sites 74; diabetes 7;
intracranial vascular lesions 50; heart disease 237; other diseases of
the circulatory system 59; bronchitis 84; pneumonia 63; other
repiratory diseases 16; ulcer of stomach or duodenum 18; diarrhoea
(under 2 years of age) 2; appendicitis 0; other digestive diseases 10;
nephritis 26; puerperal and post-abortive sepsis 1; other maternal
causes 0; premature birth 6; congenital malformations^. birth injury
and infantile diseases 9; suicide 3; road traffic accidents 7; other
violent causes 276; all Other causes 60. TOTAL DEATHS AT ALL AGES 1165.