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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1943.
Area, 12,617 acres.
Population (Census 1931), 233,115. Population (estima'.ed
middle of 1943), 199,500.
Number of Inhabited Houses (1931 Census), 56,429. Overcrowding
Census (1936), 65,550.
Rateable Value (1st April, 1943), £2,524,879.
Product of a Penny Rate (1942—1943), £9,408.
Rate in the £ : 12/8d.
Gross expenditure on Health and Hospital
Services, (administered by Medical
Officer of Health £282,506
Income on Health and Hospital Services (excluding
transfers) 64,351
Net expenditure on Health and Hospital
Services £218,155
Expressed, as a Penny Rate, 23.2 pence in the pound.
' ive Births M. F. Total
Legitimate 1,777 1,612 3,389
Illegitimate 160 127 287
3,676
Birth-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population. 18.4.
Still Births 109. Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births,
28.8.
Birth-rate per 1,000 (live and still births), 19.0.
Deaths, 2,611 (Registrar-General's figures). Death-rate per
1,000 of the estimated resident population, 13.1.
Deaths from diseases and accidents of Pregnancy and childbirth,
2; from sepsis, 1; other causes, 1,