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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS FOR 1924.
Area of Borough (excluding water) 2,136 acres
Population (Census, 1921) 162,618
Population, estimated to middle of 1924 167,300
Density 78.3
Number of Marriages 1,277
Number of Inhabited Houses (Census, 1921) 23,064
Number of families or separate occupiers (Census, 1921) 37,288
Rateable Value £934,062
Sum represented by a penny rate £3,735
Births—.Legitimate
—Illegitimate
Deaths
Total
3,737
94:
2,023
M.
1,871
45
1,088
F.
1,866
49
935
Birth Rate 22.9
Death Rate 12.1
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of,
childbirth
from sepsis 1
from other causes 4
Deaths of Infants under one year of age, per 1,000 births :—
♦Legitimate, 70.
Illegitimate, 2.
Total, 72.
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 37
,, Whooping Cough (all ages) 39
,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 29
* Legitimate (per 1,000 legitimate births) 72
Illegitimate (per 1,000 illegitimate births) 85