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VITAL STATISTICS
Land Area 1,131 acres
Estimated Number of Dwellings 25,076
Dwellings Erected by Borough Council During Year 93
(18 houses, 75 flats and maisonettes)
Approximate Rateable Value (Total) £2,175,686
(Dwellings) £562,761
Sum represented by a Penny Rate £8,950
Population:
Census 1961 (provisional) 086,175
Registrar General's estimate (mid-1960) 88,690
This represents a decrease in the figure for 1959 of only 30.
The natural increase in population - that is, the excess of births
over deaths - was 397, compared with 312 for the previous year.
1950 - 97,080 1955 - 93,820
1951 - 97,930 1956 - 92,300
1952 - 97,970 1957 - 91,140
1953 - 96,870 1958 - 89,920
1954 - 95,370 1959 - 88,720
Live births - 1600: Rate per 1,000 pop 18.0
Adjusted by comparability factor (0.90) 16.2
Still births - 26: Rate per 1,000 total births 15.9
Total births - live and still 1,626
Total deaths - 1203: Rate per 1,000 pop 13.5
Adjusted by comparability factor (0.89) 12.0
Infant deaths - 43: Rate per 1,000 live births 26.8
Rate per 1,000 live births, legitimate 26.1
illegitimate 36.3
Neo-Natal mortality - 27 (under 4 weeks)
Rate per 1,000 live births 16.8
Illegitimate Live Births - 110
Percentage of total live births 6.8
Maternal Deaths (including abortion) - 1
Rate per 1,000 live and still births 0.61
Perinatal mortality - 27
Rate per 1,000 total births 32.5