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Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births 19.7
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 19.67
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 19.6
Neonatal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000 total
live births) 13.4
Early neonatal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000
total live births) 10.2
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under 1 week
combined per 1,000 total live and still births) 27.8
Infant mortality rate for England and Wales 22.0
Maternal Mortality.
Maternal deaths (including abortion) Nil.
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 total live and still births Nil.
Maternal mortality rate for England and Wales 0.38
Deaths.
Males. Females. Total.
389 373 762
Crude death rate per 1,000 estimated total population 8.6
Adjusted death rate for comparison purposes 11.3
(The area comparability factor for deaths is 1.31)
Death rate for England and Wales 11.6
POPULATION.
The Registrar General's estimate of the total population of the
Urban District, mid-year 1959, was 89,020, which was an increase
of 480 over the figure for 1958, and was equivalent to a density of
9.94 persons to the acre.