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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS
The following statistical information relating to the Borough has been compiled from the
Local and National Statistics issued by the Registrar-General in connection with population, live
births, stillbirths and deaths.
The "Area comparability" factors for use with crude birth and death rates make allowances
for boundary changes and for the way in which the sex and age distributions of the local
population differ from those for England and Wales as a whole. In addition, the death rate "Area
comparability" factors have been adjusted specifically to take account of the presence of any
residential institutions in each area. When local crude birth and death rates are multiplied by the
appropriate "Area comparability" factors they are comparable with the crude rates for England and
Wales, or with the corresponding adjusted rates for any other area.
Area (acrea) 3988.5
Population:-
Census, 1961 222,124
Registrar-General's estimate mid-1964 216,940
Registrar-General's estimate mid-1965 215,240
Registrar-General's estimate mid-1966 213,770
Rating:-
Number of inhabited houses 55,874
Rateable Value £14,047,828
Product of a penny rate £55,320
Mortality:-
Number of deaths 2,515
Death Rate per 1,000 population:
Crude 11.8
Adjusted (Comparability Factor 1.07) 12.6
England and Wales 11.7
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 610
Deaths from Measles (all ages) -
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) -
Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 1
Deaths from Circulatory Diseases 1108
Live Births:-
Legitimate 3508
Illegitimate 647
Total 4155
Rate per 1,000 population:-
Crude 19.4
Adjusted (Comparability Factor 0.88) 17.1
England and Wales 17.7
Illegitimate Live Births per cent of total live births 15.6
Stillbirths:-
Legitimate 48
Illegitimate 12
Total 60
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