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Vital Statistics. 3
(3.) Average No. of persons in receipt of
outdoor relief 4,029
(4.) Amount of outdoor relief given £67,846
Extracts from Vital Statistics.
Births:—
Males 2,519 Legitimate 4,719
Females .. 2,396 Illegitimate 196
Total Births 4,915 Birth-rate 14.12
Deaths:—
Total Deaths 3,612 Death-rate 10.37
No. of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth :—
From sepsis 5
From other causes 5
Deaths of Infants under one year of age
Legitimate 297
Illegitimate 18
Total 315
Infantile mortality 64
Deaths from Tuberculosis:—
No 295 Rate .84
Total deaths from Measles 51
Total deaths from Whooping Cough 18
Total deaths from Diarrhoea (under two years of age) 31
Population.
The population at the middle of the year was estimated to
be 348,034, and all the rates used in this Report are calculated
on this figure. The corresponding figure for the year 1925 was
344,370.
Table I. shows the population of each sub-district, based on
the above estimation, compared with the Census population.
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