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SECTION 1.
General Statistics.
Area (acres)
4,480
Population (Census 1921)
267,198
Do. (estimated 1923)
272,300
Number of inhabited houses (Census, 1921)
41,419
Do. do. do. (approximately, 1923)
41,780
Number of families or separate occupiers, 1921
66,104
Rateable value
£1,406,254
Sum represented by a penny rate, about
£5,700
Population.— The Registrar-General has estimated the
population of the Borough at the middle of 1923 to be
272,300, and it is upon this figure that the death and birth
rates are calculated.
The estimated population of the different wards is as
follows: —
SECTION 2.
Extracts from Vital Statistics of the year.
Births
Legitimate
Illegitimate
Total.
5,522
135
M.
2,810
72
F.
2,712
63
Birth Rate, 20.7
Deaths
3,000
Death Rate, 11.0
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, Childbirth:—
From Sepsis 9
9
From other causes
11
Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births
56·7
Legitimate, 308; Illegitimate, 13. Total
321
Deaths from Measles, all ages
35
Deaths from Whooping Cough, all ages
30
Deaths from Diarrhœa, under 2 years of age
49
272,300
3,980
12,369
16,335
14,922
14,844
12,361
10,916
10,860
14,293
11,654
9,146
16,548
15,844
16,540
13,495
16,406
16,878
14,472
14,695
15,736
Estimated 1923.
270,300
3,951
12,278
16,215
14,812
14,735
12,267
10,836
10,786
14,188
11,571
9,079
16,426
15,728
16,418
13,396
16,286
16,754
14,366
14,587
15,621
Estimated 1922.
267,198
3,906
12,137
16,029
14,642
14,566
12,126
10,712
10,662
14,025
11,438
8,975
16,238
15,548
16,230
13,243
16,096
16,562
14,201
14,420
15,442
Census 1921.
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Ward.
Population.