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PART I
STATISTICS AND TABLES
The following statistical information relating to the Borough has been
completed from the Local and National Statistics issued by the Registrar-General
in connection with Population, Birth-rate, Death-rate, Maternal and Infantile
Mortality.
The comparability factor used in the calculation of the adjusted birth and
death rate figures is provided by the Registrar General. The relative age groups
of residents in each local authority area differ considerably in number. The
number of elderly residents in a southern seaside resort is obviously far greater
than in one of our new towns. Equally obviously, the same disparity will apply
between the numbers of deaths in two such towns. Conversely, the births in the
new town will be considerably greater.
Comparison, therefore, between the birth and death rates of two such towns
would be impracticable.
The comparability factor, in effect, reduces the age groups of each town in
the country to the same proportions, and thus enables direct comparisons to be
made between areas of different nature.