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Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births 17.3
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births 18.0
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegimiate live births Nil.
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000 total
live births) 12.1
Early Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000
total live births) 10.6
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under 1 week
combined per 1,000 total live and still births) 33.1
Infant mortality rate for England and Wales 21.7
Maternal Mortality.
Maternal deaths (including abortion) 1
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and still births 0.7
Maternal mortality rate for England and Wales 0.39
Deaths.
Males. Females. Total.
334 368 702
Crude death rate per 1,000 estimated total population 7.8
Adjusted death rate for comparison purposes 10.1
(The area comparability factor for deaths is 1.30)
Death rate for England and Wales 11.5
POPULATION.
The Registrar General's estimate of the total population of the
Urban District, mid-year 1960, was 89,750, which is an increase of
730 over the figure for the previous year. This population figure
gives a density of 10.02 persons to the acre.