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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Area (acres) 2,502.7
Population (Registrar General's Estimate, 1948) 100,900
„ „ „ at 31st December,
1948 103,500
Number of inhabited houses (Census, 1931) 22,536
Rateable Value, March, 1949 £10,350,000
Births.
Live Births— Total. Males Females.
Legitimate 1,227 588 639
Illegitimate 163 82 81
1,390 670 720
Births notified—1,379.
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 13.8
(Rate for London, 20.1 ; for England and Wales, 17.9)
Number of stillbirths 17
Rate of stillbirths per 1,000 (live and still) births 12.1
Deaths.
Net deaths (males 569, females 462) 1,031
Death-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 10.2
(Rate for London, 11.6 ; for England and Wales, 10.8)
Deaths from puerperal causes 1
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 0.71
Deaths of infants under 1 year (males 33, females 20) 53
Death-rate of infants under 1 year:—
All infants per 1,000 live births 38.1
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 34.2
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 67.5
Rate for London for infants under 1 year 31
Deaths from measles (all ages) 1
„ whooping cough Nil
„ diarrhœa and enteritis 14
,, cancer 203