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SECTION A
STATISTICS OF THE AREA
Area 760 acres
Population , estimated mid-year 46 ,490
Number of Dwellings 15 ,057
Rateable Value £744,415
General Rate 21s. 8d.
Sum represented by a penny rate £2 ,929
VITAL STATISTICS
Live Births Number 816
Rate per 1 ,000 population 17.5
Illegitimate Live Births (per cent of total live births) 8.9
Stillbirths: Number 19
Rate per 1 ,000 total live and stillbirths 0.4
Total live and stillbirths 17.9
Infant Deaths (deaths under 1 year) 16
Infant Mortality Rates:
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 19.6
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate
live births 21.5
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate
live births 27.4
Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1 ,000
total live births) 17.1
Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000
total live births) 15.9
Perinatal Mortality Rate (stillbirth and deaths under 1 week
combined per 1 ,000 total live and stillbirths) 38.3
Maternal Mortality (including abortion)
Number of deaths Nil
Rate per 1 ,000 total live and stillbirths —
Death Rate per 1 ,000 estimated population 12.1
During 1961 the Registrar General estimated the population as 46,490 which is
1 ,090 less than in the previous year.
The death rate was 12.1 per 1 ,000 persons as compared with a rate of
11.3 for 1960. Both births and deaths depend to some extent on the proportions