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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1944.
Area, 12,617 acres.
Population (Census 1931), 233,115. Population (estimated
middle of 1944), 190,130.
Number of Inhabited Houses (1931 Census), 56,429. Overcrowding
Census (1936), 65,550.
Rateable Value (1st April, 1944), £2,524,742.
Product of a Penny Rate (1943—1944), £9,600.
Rate in the £ : 12/4d.
Gross expenditure on Health and Hospital
Services (administered by Medical
Officer of Health £333,946
Income on Health and Hospital Services
(excluding transfers) 64,461
Net expenditure on Health and Hospital
Services £269,485
Expressed as a Penny Rate, 2/4d. in the pound.
M. F. Total.
Live Births
Legitimate 1,720 1,588 3,308
Illegitimate 129 146 275
3,583
Birth-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population, 18.8.
Still Births 97. Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
24.5.
Birth-rate (live and still births) per 1,000 population, 19.4.
Deaths, 2,854 (Registrar-General's figures). Death-rate per
1,000 of the estimated resident population, 15.1.
Deaths from diseases and accidents of pregnancy and childbirth,
8; from puerperal and post-abortal sepsis, 3; other
causes, 5.