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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA.
General Statistics, 1931.
Area 2,282.5 acres
Population (1981) (estimated) 135,100
Population Census (1901) 112,289
(1911) 121,521
(1921) 130,295
(1931) 185,521
Natural increase, i.e., excess of
births over deaths 421
Density of population 59.2 persons
per acre
Marriages registered 1,209
Number of inhabited houses
1931 17,402
Number of families or separate
occupiers (1921) 88,263
Rateable value (1931) £1,137,121
Sum represented by a penny rate,
1931 £4,603
Vital Statistics.
Births (legitimate) 1,915
,, (illegitimate) 158 birth rate 15.3
Stillbirths. 39 death rate 12.2
Deaths (corrected) 1,652
Number of women dying in, or in from sepsis 2.
consequence of childbirth from other causes 5
Deaths of infants under one year
of age per 1,000 births 68
Legitimate, 64. Illegitimate, 114.
Deaths from measles (all ages') 0
Deaths from whooping cough (all ages) 7
Deaths from diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 19