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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Statistical Summary, 1928.
Area of Borough in acres 4051
Population—estimated to middle of year (as supplied by the
Registrar-General) for birth and death rates 39,280
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, 1928 £1,640,107
Rate of 1d. in the £ estimated to yield £6,530
Total M. F.
Births Legitimate 436 232 204
Illegitimate 37 21 16 {473
Annual rate of births per 1,000 population 12.0
Deaths 531
Annual rate of deaths per 1,000 population 13.5
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth from sepsis 1
„ other causes —
Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births 57
Deaths from measles (all ages) 8
„ „ Whooping cough (all ages) 4
,, „ diarrhoea (under two years of age) 6
Zymotic death rate* 0.35
Tuberculosis death-rate per 100,000 119
Excess of registered births over deaths —
Excess of registered deaths over births 58
* Excluding deaths from Epidemic diarrhoea.