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SUMMARY OF PARTICULARS REQUIRED BY THE MINISTRY
OF HEALTH.
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Area (acres)—2,502-7.
Population (Census 1921)—141,578.
Population, June, 1929 (Registrar General's Estimate)—130,000.
(See note on population.)
„ „ „ Civilian—125,800.
Number of Inhabited Houses (1921)—25,321.
Number of Families or Separate Occupiers (1921)—33,946.
Rateable value— £10,076,000 (March, 1931).
Sum represented by a penny rate—£43,140.
Extracts from Vitat. Statistics for the Year.
Births—
Males.
Females.
Total.
Birth-rate.
Legitimate
603
599
1,202^
10-5
Illegitimate
93
73
166/
Totals
696
672
1,368
Deaths—1,478. Death-rate—11-7.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth :—
Puerperal fever, 4 7.3 per 1,000 births.
From other causes, 6
Number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births - 59-21.
Legitimate rate, 43-2 : Illegitimate rate, 174 6.
Number of deaths from measles (all ages)—15.
„ ., diphtheria—6.
„ „ whooping cough (all ages)—2.
„ „ scarlet fever—2.
„ „ diarrhoea (under 2 years of age)—8.
„ ,, typhoid fever—2.
Other particulars asked for are given in the body of the Report.