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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1938
Area of District in Acres 5,935
Population: 1931 Census 43,832
Estimated by Registrar-General, June, 1938 70,590
Rateable value, 1st October, 1938 £833,406
Sum represented by a penny rate, 31st March, 1938 £3,333
Density of Population (Census, 1931) 11.28
Number of Occupied Houses (Census, 1931) 10,308
Houses erected in 1938 630
Number of live Births :—
Males Females
Legitimate 451 417
Illegitimate 13 10 Total 891
Live Birth Rate 12.622
Still Births Registered :—
Legitimate: Males, 19; Females, 21 40
Still Birth Rate (a) per 1,000 population 0.566
(b) per 1,000 births—live and still 42.964
Number of Deaths (Registrar-General's figures) :—
Males, 290; Females, 300 590
Death Rate per 1,000 living 8.358
Infantile Mortality (31 deaths of infants under 1 year of
age, per 1,000 births) 34.792
Males Females
Legitimate 15 10
Illegitimate 2 4
Zymotic Death Rate (3 deaths) 0.042
Tuberculosis Death Rate (all forms, 25 deaths) 0.354
,, (Pulmonary Tuberculosis, 22 deaths) 0.312
Disease of Respiratory Organs other than Tuberculosis,
84 deaths 1.189
Cancer Death Rate, 96 deaths 1.359
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