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9
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA.
General Statistics, 1933.
Area 2,282.5 acres
Population (1933) (estimated) 131,400
Population Census (1901) 112,239
„ „ (1911) 121,521
„ „ (1921) 130,295
„ „ (1931) 135,521
Natural increase, i.e., excess of
births over deaths 137
Density of population 57.6 persons
per acre
Marriages registered 1,245
Number of inhabited houses
1931 17,402
Number of families or separate
occupiers (1921) 33,263
Rateable value (1933) £1,148,584
Sum represented by a penny rate,
1933 £4,680
Vital Statistics.
Births (legitimate) 1,706
,, (illegitimate) 121 birth rate 13.9
Stillbirths 66 death rate 12.9
Deaths (corrected) 1,690
Number of women dying in, or in from sepsis 6.
consequence of childbirth from other causes 2.
Deaths of infants under one year
of age per 1,000 births 65
Legitimate, 58. Illegitimate, 157.
Deaths from measles (all ages) 3
Deaths from whooping cough (all ages) 5
Deaths from diarrhœa (under 2 years of age) 27