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Vital Statistics
(3.) Average No. of persons in receipt of
outdoor relief 3,549
(4.) Amount of outdoor relief given £61,683
Extracts from Vital Statistics.
Births:—
Males 2,384 Legitimate 4,449
Females 22,69 Illegitimate 204
Total Births 4,653 Birth-rate 13.13
Deaths:—
Total Deaths 3,883 Death-rate 10.96
No. of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth:—
From sepsis 6
From other causes 13
Deaths of Infants under one year of age:—
Legitimate 217
Illegitimate 23
Total 240
%
Infantile mortality 51
0
Deaths from Tuberculosis:—
No. 338 Rate .95
Total deaths from Measles 4
Total deaths from Whooping Cough 28
Total deaths from Diarrhœa (under two years of age) 19
Population.
The population at the middle of the year was estimated to
be 354,178, and all the rates used in this Report are calculated
on this figure. The corresponding figure for the year 1926 was
348,034.
Table I. shows the population of each sub-district, based on
the above estimation, compared with the Census population.
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