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STATISTICS AND TABLES
The following statistical information relating to the Borough has been compiled from the Local and
National Statistics issued by the Registrar-General in connection with population, live-births, stillbirths and
deaths.
The "area comparability" factors for use with crude birth and death rates contain adjustments for boundary
changes and make allowances for the way in which the sex and age distribution of the local population differs
from that for England and Wales as a whole. In addition, the death rate "area comparability" factors have
been adjusted specifically to take account of the presence of any residential institutions in each area. When
local crude birth and death rates are multiplied by the appropriate "area comparability" factor, they are
comparable with the crude rate for England and Wales or with the corresponding adjustments for any other
area.
Area in Acres 3.995
Population:
Census 1961 222,124
Census 1971 187,195
"Registrar General's Estimate mid 1972 181,880
Rating:
Number of Habitable Dwellings (approx) 56,900
Rateable Value £14,039,329
Product of a penny rate (estimated) £134,500
Mortality:
Number of Deaths 2,331
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages)
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 541
Deaths from Cancer of the Lung and Bronchus (all ages) 188
Deaths from Measles (all ages)
Deaths from Enteritis and other Diarrhoeal Diseases (under 4 years of age)
Death from Circulatory Diseases (all ages) 1,074
Maternal Mortality —
x
These mid-year figures are provisional and are subject to revision in the light of
final 1971 Census figures.