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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1946.
Area, 12,617 acres.
Population (Census 1931), 233,115. Population (estimated
middle of 1946), 233,230.
Number of Inhabited Houses (1931 Census), 56,429. Overcrowding
Census (1936), 65,550.
Rateable Value (1st April, 1946), £2,503,826.
Product of a Penny Rate (1945—1946), £9,521.
Rate in the £ : 12s. 4d.
Gross expenditure on Health and Hospital
Services (administered by Medical
Officer of Health) £367,542
Income on Health and Hospital Services
(excluding transfers) 91,717
Net expenditure on Health and Hospital
Services £275,825
Expressed as a Penny Rate, 2/5d. in the pound.
M. F. Total.
Live Births
Legitimate 2,281 2,211 4,492
Illegitimate 163 151 314
4,806
Birth-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population,
20.6.
Still Births 131. Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births,
26.5.
Birth-rate (live and still births) per 1,000 population, 21.2.
Deaths, 2,691 (Registrar-General's figures). Death-rate per
1,000 of the estimated resident population, 11.5.
Deaths from diseases and accidents of pregnancy and childbirth,
3; from puerperal and post-abortal sepsis, nil;
other causes, 3.