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SECTION A
STATISTICS OF THE AREA
Area 760 acres
Population, estimated mid-year 56,650
Number of inhabited houses (at 31st December, 1953) 15,948
Rateable Value £445,992
General Rate 23s. 8d.
Sum represented by a penny rate £1,744
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR
Males Females Total
Live Births: Legitimate 437 419 856
Illegitimate 25 21 46
Rate per 1,000 estimated population 15.9
Stillbirths: Legitimate 9 7 16
Illegitimate 2 - 2
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 19-6
Deaths
Death Rate per 1,000 estimated population 10.1.
Deaths of Infants under one year of age-
Legitimate 6 7 13
Illegitimate - - -
Death Rate of Infants under one year of ageAll
Infants per 1,000 live births
Legitimate infants per 1,000
legitimate live births 15.2
Illegitimate infants per 1,000
illegitimate live births Nill
During 1953, the population showed a natural increase of 331, that
is that there were 331 more births than deaths, but in spite of this
the Registrar General estimated that the number of persons resident
in the Borough was 390 less than in the previous year, showing that
upwards of seven hundred persons had been rehoused outside the Borough
or left for other reasons.