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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Area (acres) 2,503.9
Population (Registrar General's Estimate, mid-year, 1962) 86,110
Population, Census, 1961 85,735
Number of private dwellings (Census, 1961) 30,801
Rateable Value (at 1st April, 1962) £22,247,725
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 12.32
Area Comparability Factor Births: 0.84
Birth rate (adjusted) 10.35
(Rate for England and Wales, 18.0)
Number of stillbirths (males, 9; females, 13) 22
Rate of stillbirths per 1,000 (live and still) births 20.31
Total live and stillbirths 1,083
Illegitimate live births per cent. of total live births 15.74
Deaths
Net deaths (males 551; females, 485) 1,036
Death-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 12.03
Area Comparability Factor—Deaths: 0.98
Death rate (adjusted) 11.78
(Rate for England and Wales, 11.9)
Deaths arising from pregnancy, childbirth, abortion Nil
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births -
Deaths of infants under 1 year (males, 17; females, 9) 26
Death-rate of infants under 1 year-
All infants per 1,000 live births 24.50
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 22.37
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 35.93
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000
total live births) 17.90
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per
1,000 total live births) 16.02
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths plus deaths under 1 week
per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) 36.01
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