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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1941
Area, 12,617 acres.
Population (Census 1931) 233,115. .population(estimated middle of 1941) 184,500.
Number of Inhabited Houses (1931 Census) 56,429. Overcrowding Census (1936)
65,550
Rateable Value (1st April 1941) £2,508,020
Product of a Penny Rate (1940 - 1941) £9,291
Rate in the £ 12/8d,
Gross expenditure on Health Services
(administered by Medical Officer
of Health £232,254.
Income on Health Services (excluding
transfers) £ 65,757.
Net expenditure on Health Services £166,497.
Expressed as a Penny Rate, 17.92 pence in the pound.
Live Births - M. F. Total
Legitimate 1,260 1,216" 2,476 )2
Illegitimate 82 84 166) '
The Registrar General has submitted a separate figure of 2,408 for the purpose
of calculating Infant and Maternal Mortality rates.
Birth-rate per 1,000 of the estimatad rasident population, 14.3.
Still Births 65 Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births, 24.01 (for the
purpose of Infant and Maternal Mortality rates the Registrar General submits a
total of 64 still births).
Birth rate per 1,000 (live and still births) 14.7.
Deaths 2538. Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 13.75
Deaths from diseases and accidents of pregnancy and childbirth: 8.
From sepsis 3; other causes 5.
Maternal mortality 3.23 per 1,000 total live and still births.
" " 2.01 " " " " " " " (excluding abortions)
Death-rate of Infants under one year of age (90 deaths, 2408 births)
All Infants per 1,000 live births 37
Legitimate Infants (81 deaths) per 1,000 live births 34
Illegitimate Infants (9 deaths)per 1,000 live births 56
Deaths from Influenza 35 Deaths from Diphtheria (all ages) 4
" " Whooping Cough
(all ages) 6 " Pneumonia 168
" " Diarrhoea (under 2
years of age) 6 " " Cancer 370
Rate per 1,000
Deaths from diseases of Cardiac and Circulatory System, (including Population
Cerebral Haemorrhage) 5.43
Deaths from diseases of the Respiratory System (including Tuberculosis) 2.39
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