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SECTION A
STATISTICS OF THE AREA
Area 760 acres
Population , estimated mid-year 46 ,090
Number of Dwellings 14 ,687
Rateable Value £1 ,088 ,776
General Rate 8s. 10d.
Sum represented by a penny rate £9 ,080
VITAL STATISTICS
Live Births Number 827
Rate per 1 ,000 population 17.9
Illegitimate Live Births (per cent of total live births) 9.4
Stillbirths: Number 15
Rate per 1 ,000 total live and stillbirths 32
Total live and stillbirths
Rate per 1,000 population 18.2
Infant Deaths (deaths under 1 year) 20
Infant Mortality Rates:
Total infant deaths per 1 ,000 total live births 24.2
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate
live births 24.0
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate
live births 25.6
Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000
total live births) 15.7
Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 1 week per
1 ,000 total live births) 14.5
Perinatal Mortality Rate (stillbirth and deaths under 1 week
combined per 1 ,000 total live and stillbirths 32.0
Maternal Mortality (including abortion)
Number of deaths Nil
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths -
Death Rate per 1,000 estimated population 12.2
During 1963 the Registrar General estimated the population as 46,090 which
is 140 less than in the previous year.
The death rate was 12.2 per 1,000 persons which is the same as for 1962.
Both births and deaths depend to some extent on the proportions of young and