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Summary of Statistics, 1937.
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
1937) 143,500
Structurally separate occupied dwellings on rate
books at end of 1937 28,045
Rateable value (1937) £1,160,667
Sum represented by a penny rate £4,728
2. Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
Births—
Males. Females. Total.
Legitimate 1,058 1,000 2,058
Illegitimate 42 44 86
Live births 1,100 1,044 2,144
Still births 35 28 63
Live birth-rate (per 1,000 population) 14. 94
Still-birth-rate (per 1,000 births live and still) 28.5
Deaths—Males, 947 ; females, 903 1,850
Death-rate (per 1,000 population) 12.89
Number of women dying in or in consequence of
childbirth—
From sepsis Nil.
Other puerperal causes 4
Maternal mortality rate (per 1,000 births live and still) 1. 81
Deaths of infants under 1 year—
Legitimate, 145; illegitimate, 6 151
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)—
Legitimate, 70 .46; illegitimate, 69.77. All
deaths under 1 year 70.43
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 244
„ Measles (all ages) 3
„ Whooping-cough (all ages) 9
„ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 30
3. Census— Private Inhabited
Population. families. dwellings.
1911 167,743 39,439 24,321
1921 167,739 42,988 27,191
1931 159,552 44,618 27,219