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SECTION A
STATISTICS OF THE AREA
Area 760 acres
Population, estimated mid-year 47,580
Number of Dwellings 15,243
Rateable Value £744,242
General Rate 20s.0d.
Sum represented by a penny rate £2,837
VITAL STATISTICS
Live Births: Number 825
Rate per 1,000 population 17.3
Illegitimate Live Births (per cent of total live births) 7.5
Stillbirths: Number 11
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 0.23
Total live and stillbirths 17.5
Infant Deaths (deaths under 1 year) 22
Infant Mortality Rates: Total infant deaths
per 1,000 total live births 25.6
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate
live births 28.8
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate
live births Nil
Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 4 weeks
per 1,000 total live births) 21.8
Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 1 week
per 1,000 total live births) 19.4
Perinatal Mortality Rate (stillbirths and deaths under
1 week combined per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 32.3
Maternal Mortality (including abortion)
Number of deaths Nil
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths -
Death Rate per 1,000 estimated population 11.3
During 1960 the Registrar General estimated the population as 47,580
which is 1,380 less than in the previous year.
The death rate was 11.3 per 1,000 persons as compared with a rate of
11.6 for 1959. Both births and deaths depend to some extent on the proportions