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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1945.
Area, 12,617 acres.
Population (Census 1931), 233,115. Population (estimated
middle of 1945), 200,780.
Number of Inhabited Houses (1931 Census), 56,429. Overcrowding;
Census (1936), 65,550.
Rateable Value (1st April, 1945), £2,505,211.
Product of a Penny Rate (1944—1945), £9,517.
Rate in the £: 11/8d.
Gross expenditure on Health and Hospital
Services (administered by Medical
Officer of Health) £302,017
Income on Health and Hospital Services
(excluding transfers) 59,976
Net expenditure on Health and Hospital
Services £242,041
Expressed as a Penny Rate, 2/l½d. in the pound.
M. F. Total.
Live Births
Legitimate 1,652 1,536 3,188
Illegitimate 197 190 387
3,575
Birth-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population,
17.8.
Still Births 100. Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births,
27.2.
Birth-rate (live and still births) per 1,000 population, 18.3.
Deaths, 2,513 (Registrar-General's figures). Death-rate per
1,000 of the estimated resident populaion, 12.5.
Deaths from diseases and accidents of pregnancy and childbirth,
9; from puerperal and post-abortal sepsis, 1; other
causes, 8.