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PART 2
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
Area (in acres) 11,142
Registrar-General's estimate of population, mid 1963 74,200
Population, Census 1951 63,770
Population, Census 1961 74,738
Number of occupied houses, December, 1963 21,321
Number of occupied houses, 1951 18,071
Number of occupied houses, 1931 9,533
Rateable Value, December, 1963 £3,750,175
Sum represented by a penny rate £15,480
VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1963
M F
Live births 1,109 Live-births - Legitimate 568 492
Live birth rate per 1,000 Live-births - Illegitimate 26 23
population 14.9
Corrected 16.2
Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births = 4.4.
Still-births 12 Still-births - Legitimate 4 6
Still-birth rate per 1,000 Still-births - Illegitimate 2
live and still-births 10.7
Total live and still-births 1,121
Infant deaths 17 Infant deaths -
Legitimate 7 8
Infant deaths -
Illegitimate 1 1
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births - total 15.3
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births - legitimate 14.1
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births - illegitimate 40.8
Neo Natal Mortality rate per 1,000 live births (first four
weeks) 11.7
Early Neo Natal Mortality Rate per 1,000 live births
(first week) 90
Perinatal Mortality Rate per 1,000 live and still-births
(still-births and deaths under 1 week combined) 19.6
Maternal deaths (including abortion) -
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and still-births
M F
Deaths 994 415 579
Death rate per 1,000
population 13.3
Corrected 10.3
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