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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Statistical Summary, 1927.
Area of Borough in acres 4051
Population—estimated to middle of year (as supplied by the
Registrar-General) for birth and death rates 42,209
Population—Census, 1921 43,192
Number of inhabited houses (1921) 6,494
Number of families or separate occupiers (1927) 9,682
Rateable value 1st November £1,626,451
Rate of 1d. in the £ estimated to yield £6,443
Total M. F.
Births Legitimate 452 227 225 505
Illegitimate 53 26 27
Annual rate of births per 1,000 population 11.96
Deaths 530
Annual rate of deaths per 1,000 population 12.5
Number of women dying in, or in consequence from sepsis 2
of, childbirth „ other causes —
Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1.000 births—
Legitimate 40. Illegitimate 19. Total 38
Deaths from measles (all ages) 0
„ „ whooping cough (all ages) 5
,, „ diarrhœa (under two years of age) 5
Zymotic death rate* 0.14
Tuberculosis death-rate per 100,000 130
Excess of registered births over deaths —
Excess of registered deaths over births 25
* Excluding deaths from Epidemic diarrhœa.