Table: GENERAL AND VITAL STATISTICS 1963
GENERAL AND VITAL STATISTICS 1963
| Area of Boroughs: | 659.6 acres |
| General Rates: | 19s.4d, in the £ (at 31st March, 1963) |
| Product of a Penny Rate (net): | £8,095 |
| Rateable value of Borough as at 31st March, 1963: | £2,043,649 |
| Populations Registrar-General's estimate of the population of the Borough (mid-year 1963): | 48,050 |
| Density of population per acres: | 72.8 |
| Number of Dwellings (according to the Rate Books): | 17,267 |
| Live Births: | Total | Male | Female | Birth rate per 1,000 of estimated populations | |
| Legitimate | 547 | 287 | 260 | |
| Illegitimate | 75 | 35 | 40 | |
| 622 | 322 | 300 | 12.9 |
| | | | Adjustment of birth rate by area comparability factor (0.73): | 9.4 |
| (Birth rate for England and Wales - 18.2) |
| Illegitimate Live Births (per cent of total live births): | 12.1 |
| Still Births: | Total | Male | Female | | |
| Legitimate | 11 | 7 | 4 | Rate per 1,000 live and still births: | 22.0 |
| Illegitimate | _2 | 2 | 1 |
| 14 | 9 | 5 | | |
| (Still birth rate for England and Wales - 17.3) | |
| Total Live and Still Births: | 636 |
| Infant Deaths (deaths under one year): | | |
| Total | Male | Female |
| Legitimate | 8 | 4 | 4 | Rate per 1,000 live births: | 17.7 |
| Illegitimate | 3 | 3 | - |
| 11 | 7 | 4 |