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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Area (acres): 2,502.7 Population (Census 1951) 129,579
Population, 1940, (Registrar General's estimate:) 85,920
Number of inhabited houses (Census 1931) 22,536
Rateable value, March 1941 £10,700,000 (estimate)
Sum represented by 1d rate £35,670 (estimate)
BIRTHS
For calculation of For calculation of Infant
Birth Rate and Maternal Mortality Rates
Live Births Total Males Females Live Births Total Males Females
Legitimate 717 375 342 Legitimate 643 338 305
Illegitimate 121 50 71 Illegitimate 119 48 71
838 425 413 762 386 376
Births Notified 623
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population: 9.7
(Rate for London: 13.7; for England & Wales: 14.6)
Number of Stillbirths 30
Rate of Stillbirths per 1,000 total (live & still) births 34.5
DEATHS
Net deaths 1502 (males 807, females 695)
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population:
Crude: 17.4; Adjusted: 17.5(Rate
for London: 17.8; for England & Wales: 14.3)
Deaths from puerperal causes 2 (2.6 per 1000
births).
Deaths of infants under 1 year 34 (males 17; Females 17)
Death rate of infants under 1 year:-
All infants per 1,000 live births 44.f
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 43
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births. 50
Rate for London 50
Deaths from measles (all ages) Nil
" " whooping cough (all ages) Nil
" " diarrhoea (under 2 years) 3
" " cancer 175
INFANT MORTALITY - Causes of Death:
Total Legitimate Illegitima
Diarrhoea & Enteritis 3 3
Congenital malformation,
Prematurity etc. 18 15 3
Respiratory diseases 1 1
Broncho-pneumonia 6 5 1
Accident 1 — 1
Kidney affections 1 1
Tubercular meningitis 1 1
Digestive diseases 1 1
Syphilis 2 1 1
34 28 6