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7
Summary of Statistics, 1936.
1. General
Area of Borough—
(Including land and inland water) acres
2,163
(Excluding water) acres
2,139·9
Population—(Registrar-General's estimate, midyear
1936)
145,500
Structurally separate occupied dwellings on rate
books at end of 1936
27,820
Rateable value (1936)
£1,139,437
Sum represented by a penny rate
£4,670
2. Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
Births—
Males.
Females.
Total.
Legitimate
1,015
1,026
2,041
Illegitimate
47
40
87
Live births
1,062
1,066
2,128
Still births
30
30
60
Live birth-rate
14·63
Still-birth-rate (per 1,000 births live and still)
27·4
Deaths—Males, 947; females, 953
1,900
Death-rate (per 1,000 population)
13·06
Number of women dying in or in consequence of
childbirth—
From sepsis
3
Other puerperal causes
2
Maternal mortality rate (per 1,000 births live and still)
2·3
Deaths of infants under 1 year—
Legitimate, 121; illegitimate, 5
126
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)—
Legitimate, 59·28; illegitimate, 57·47. All
deaths under 1 year
59·21
Deaths from Cancer (all ages)
260
„ Measles (all ages)
23
„ Whooping-cough (all ages)
11
„ Diarrhœa (under 2 years of age)
22
3. Census—
Private
families.
Inhabited
dwellings.
Population.
1911
167,743
39,439
24,321
1921
167,739
42,988
27,191
1931
159,552
44,618
27,219