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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Area (acres) 2,502.7
Population (Registrar General's Estimate, mid-year, 1950) 105,100
Number of inhabited houses (Census, 1931) 22,536
Rateable Value £10,839,372
Births.
Live Births (registered)—
Total.
Males.
Females.
Legitimate
1,117
576
541
Illegitimate
134
70
64
1,251
646
605
Births Notified—1,246.
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 11.9
(Rate for London, 17.8; for England and Wales, 15.8)
Number of stillbirths (males, 24; females, 12) 36
Rate of stillbirths per 1,000 (live and still) births 27.9
Deaths.
Net deaths (males, 554 ; females, 514) 1,068
Death-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 10.16
(Rate for London, 11.8; for England and Wales, 11.6)
Deaths from puerperal causes 1
(Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births) 0.7
Deaths of infants under 1 year (males, 30 ; females, 14) 44
Death-rate of infants under 1 year—
All infants per 1,000 live births 35.17
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 33.12
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 52.2
Rate for London for infants under 1 year 26.3
Deaths (all ages) from measles Nil
,, ,, whooping cough 1
,, ,, gastritis, diarrhoea and enteritis 6
,, ,, cancer 241