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Extracts from Vital Statistics.—The following table gives
the extracts from the vital statistics required by the Ministry of
Health:-
POPULATION 68,960.
Live Births.
Total.
M.
F.
Birth-rate per 1,000
of estimated population—12.6
Legitimate
823
436
387
Illegitimate
45
25
20
868
461
407
Still Births.
Legitimate
31
18
13
Rate per 1,000 births
—39
Illegitimate
3
1
2
34
19
15
Deaths 704 Death-rate per 1,000 inhabitants—
10.2
Deaths from Puerperal causes (Headings 29 and 30 of the Registrar
General's short list).
Deaths Rate per 1,000 births
No. 29 Puerperal Sepsis 2 2.3
No. 30. Other Puerperal causes 2 2.3
Death-rate of Infants under 1 year of age.
All infants per 1,000 births 59
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate births 57
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate births 127
i Deaths from Measles—all ages 0
!Deaths from Whooping Cough 3
'Deaths from Diarrhoea—under 2 years of age 11
POPULATION.
The Registrar General has given the estimated population
(for mid 1935 at 68,960, a reduction of 383 on the estimate for mid
1934, and a reduction of 1,550 on the Census population,