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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1940
Area, 12,617 acres.
Population (Census 1931) 233,115. Population (estimated middle of
1940) 199,800.
Number of Inhabited Houses (1931 Census) 56,l429. Overcrowding
Census (1936), 65,550.
Rateable Value (1st April 1939) £2,513,606.
Product of a Penny Rate (1939 - 1940) £9,556
Rate in the £. 11/4d.
Gross expenditure on Health Services
(administered by Medical Officer
of' Health ) 249,600
Income on Health Services (excluding
transfers) 53,248
Net expenditure on Health Services £196,352
Expressed as a Penny Rate, 20.55d. pence in the pound.
Live Births - M. P. Total
Legitimate l457 l,450 2,907)3,070
Illegitimate 72 163)
The Registrar General has submitted a separate figure of 2949
for the purpose of calculating Infant and Maternal Mortality rates.
Birth-rate par 1,000 of the estimated resident population, 15,14.
Still Births 85. Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births, 30.5°
(for the purpose of Infant and Maternal Mortality rates tho Registrar
General submits a total of 82 still births).
Birth rate per l,000(live and still births) I5.4.
Deaths 3118. Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident
population 15.6.
Deaths, from diseases and accidents of pregnancy and childbirth:
From sepsis 2; other causes 3.
Maternal mortality; 1.65 per 1,000 total live and still births abortions)
(excluding
Death-rate of Infants under one year of ago (ll6 deaths, 2949 births)
All Infants per 1,000 live births 39
Legitimate Infants (107 deaths) per 1,000 live births 36
Illegitimate Infants (9 deaths) per 1,000 live births 57
Deaths from Influenza 49 Deaths from Diphtheria (all 4
" " whooping Cough ages)
(all ages) 2 Pneumonia 206
" " Diarrhoea (under Cancer 443
2 years of age) 11
Rate per 1,0 00
Deaths from diseases of Cardiac and Circulatory System -papulation
(including Cerebral Haemorrhage) 4.31
Deaths from diseases of the Respiratory System(including
Tuberculosis) 2.45
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