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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Area (in acres) 11,142
Registrar-General's estimate of population, Dec., 1949 64,080
Population, Census 1931 37,666
Number of occupied houses, December, 1949 17,424
Number of occupied houses, 1931 9,533
Rateable Value, December, 1949 £759,380
Sum represented by a penny rate £3,080
VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1949
Birth Rate per 1 ,000 of the
Total M. F. estimated resident population.
Live Births—Legitimate 813 420 393
do. Illegitimate 21 10 11
13.0
834 430 404
Rate per 1,000
(live and still) births.
Still Births—Legitimate 19 11 8
do. Illegitimate 2 1 1 24.8
Crude Death Rate
per 1,000 of the
estimated resident population.
Deaths 622 306 316 9.1
Corrected Death Rate 8.5
Rate per 1,000
(live and still) births.
Deaths from Puerperal causes:—
Puerperal Sepsis — —
Other Puerperal causes — —
Total — —
Death Rates of Infants under one year of age:—
All infants per 1,000 live births 25
Legitimate infants for 1,000 legitimate births 25
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate births 47
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 111
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 1
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) Nil
Deaths from Diarrhœa (under 2 years) 1
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