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SECTION A
STATISTICS OF THE AREA
Area 760 acres
Population, estimated mid-year 55,530
Number of inhabited houses (at 31st December, 1954) 17,340
Rateable Value £446,579
General Plate 23s. 8d.
Sum represented by a penny rate £1,777
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR
Males Females Total
Live Births: Legitimate 450 442 892
Illegitimate 22 29 51
Rate per 1,000 estimated population 17.0
Stillbirths: Legitimate 12 7 19
Illegitimate - - -
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 19.7
Deaths
Death Rate per 1,000 estimated population 9.8
Deaths of Infants under one year of age -
Legitimate 7 6 13
Illegitimate - 1 1
Death Rate of Infants under one year of age -
All infants per 1,000 live births 14.8
Legitimate infants per 1,000
legitimate live births 14.3
Illegitimate infants per 1,000
illegitimate live births 19.6
During 1954, the population showed a natural increase of 396,
that is that there were 396 more births than deaths, but in spite of
this the Registrar General estimated that the number of persons
resident in the Borough was 1,120 loss than in the previous year,
showing that some fifteen hundred persons had been rehoused outside
the Borough or left for other reasons.