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STATISTICS AND TABLES
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 births and death
rates contain adjustments for boundary changes and make allowances for the
way in which the sex and age distribution of the local population differs
from that 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"
factor, they are comparable with the crude rate for England and
Wales or with the corresponding adjusted rate for any other area.
Area (acres) 3,995
Population:-
Census 1961 222,124
Registrar-General's estimate mid-1965 215,240
Registrar-General's estimate mid-1966 213,770
Registrar-General's estimate mid-1967 211,720
Registrar-General's estimate mid-1968 197,590
Rating:-
Number of inhabited houses 56,000
Rateable Value £14,000,000
Product of a penny rate £56,300
Mortality:-
Number of deaths 2,405
Death Rate per 1,000 population:-
Crude 12.2
Adjusted (Comparability Factor 1.08) 13.1
England and Wales 11.9
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 581
Deaths from Measles (all ages) -
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) -
Deaths from Enteritis and other Diarrhoeal diseases
(under 2 years of age) 1
Deaths from Circulatory Diseases 1,077
Live Births:-
Legitimate 2,943
Illegitimate 607
Total 3,550
Rate per 1,000 population:-
Crude 18.0
Adjusted (Comparability Factor 0.86) 15.4
England and Wales 16.9
Illegitimate Live Births per cent of total live births 17.1
Stillbirths:-
Legitimate 37
Illegitimate 11
Total 48
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