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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Statistical Summary, 1931.
Area of Borough in acres 405.1
Resident population—estimated to middle of 1931 (as supplied by
the Registrar-General) for birth and death rates 34,470
Enumerated population—Census, 1931 38,816
Number of inhabited houses (1921) 6,494
Number of families or separate oocupiers (1921) 9,682
Rateable value 1st November, 1931 £1,702,458
Rate of Id. in the £ estimated to yield £6,754
Total M. F.
Live Births Legitimate 308 158 150 352
illegitimate 44 23 21
Annual rate of births per 1,000 estimated resident population 10.21
Still births 15
Rate per 1,000 total births 43
Deaths 492
Annual rate of deaths per 1.000 estimated resident population 14.27
Percentage of total deaths occurring in Public institutions 68
Number of women dying in, or in consequence from sepsis 0
of, childbirth ,, other causes 0
Death rate of infants under one year of age :—
All infants per 1,000 live births 74
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 71
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 91
Deaths from measles (all ages) 1
„ „ diphtheria (all ages) 0
,, „ whooping cough (all ages) 4
„ „ diarrhoea (under two years of age) 3
Zymotic death rate* 0.17
Tuberculosis, all causes, death-rate per 100,000 110
Excess of registered births over deaths —
Excess of registered deaths over births 140
* Excluding deaths from Epidemic diarrhœa.
Population and Houses.
The Census of England and Wales, 1931, was taken on the night of the
26th-27th April. The Preliminary Report issued by the Registrar-General gives
the following as the Census population of the Borough: —
Males. Females. Persons.
Census, 1921 20,732 22,460 43,192
Census, 1931 18,179 20,637 38,816
Decrease 2,553 1,823 4,376