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VITAL STATISTICS
Land Area 1,131 acres
Estimated Number of Dwellings 25,004
Dwellings Erected by Borough Council During Year nil
*Approximate Rateable Value (Total) £2,323,984
(Dwellings) £583,538
£9 250
*Sum represented by a Penny Rate
(*at April 1962)
Population:
Census 1961 (provisional) 86,175
Registrar General's estimate (mid-1961) 86,270
This estimate is 95 more than the provisional census figure
and represents a decrease in the figure for 1960 of 2420
The natural increase in population - that is, the excess of births
over deaths - was 444 compared with 397 for the previous year
1951 - 97,930 1956 - 92,300
1952 - 97,970 1957 - 91, 140
1953 - 96,870 1958 - 89,920
1954 - 95,370 1959 - 88,720
1955 - 93,820 1960 - 88,690
Live births - 1692: Rate per 1,000 pop 19.6
Adjusted by comparability factor (0.91) .. 17.8
Still births - 36: Rate per 1,000 total births 20.8
Total births - live and still 1,728
Total deaths - 1248: Rate per 1,000 pop 14.4
Adjusted by comparability factor (0.84) 12.0
Infant deaths - 37: Rate per 1,000 live births 21.8
Rate per 1,000 live births, legitimate 19.5
illegitimate 44.5
Neo-Natal mortality - 20 (under 4 weeks)
Rate per 1,000 live births 11.8
Illegitimate Live Births - 157
Percentage of total live births 9.2
Maternal Deaths (including abortion) 2
Rate per 1,000 live and still births 1.1
Perinatal mortality - 18 (under 1 week)
Rate per 1,000 total births 31.2