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VITAL STATISTICS
Area of Borough (including 20 acres of
waterways) 1,356 acres
Rateable Value £9,226,823
Product of a penny rate (net) £36,800
Population (Registrar General's midyear
home population) 117,050 (113,960)
Number of dwellings (according to the
Rate Books) 32,318 (32,070)
Live Births
Number 2,489 (2,637)
Rate per 1,000 population 21.26 (23.14)
Illegitimate Live Births per cent. of total
live births 23 (24)
Still Births
Number 30 (33)
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 12 (12)
Total Live and Still Births 2,519 (2,670)
Infant Deaths (deaths under one year) 35 (47)
Infant Mortality Rates
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live
births 14 (19)
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000
legitimate live births 12 (17)
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000
illegitimate live births 21 (22)
Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under
four weeks per 1,000 total live births) 11 (14)
Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths
under one week per 1,000 total live
births) 10 (12)
Perinatal Mortality Rate (still births and
deaths under one week combined per
1,000 total live and still births) 21 (24)
Maternal Mortality (including abortion)
Number of deaths 1 (2)
Rate per 1,000 total live and still
births 0.40 (0.75)
Deaths from all causes 1,090 (1,296)
Borough death rate (deaths per 1,000
population) 9.31 (11.37)
Comparability factors—Births 0.73 (0.73)
Deaths 1.20 (1.20)
England and Wales—Birthrate 18.4 (18.2)
Death rate 11.3 (12.2)
Marriages 1,258 (1,312)