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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1947.
Area, 12,617 acres.
Population (Census 1931), 233,115. Population (estimate of
Registrar-General), 242,770.
Number of Inhabited Houses (1931 Census), 56,429. Overcrowding
Census (1936), 65,550.
Rateablet Value (1st April, 1947), £2,515,408.
Product of a Penny Rate (1946—1947), £9,773.
Rate in the £ : 12s. 4d.
Gross expenditure on Health and Hospital
Services (administered by Medical
Officer of Health) £509,874
Income on Health and Hospital Services
(excluding transfers) 119,974
Net expenditure on Health and Hospital
Services £389,900
Expressed as a Penny Rate, 3/4d. in the pound.
M. F. Total.
Live Births
Legitimate 2,481 2,336 4,817
Illegitimate 134 149 283
5,100
Birth-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population,
21.0.
Still Births 111. Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births,
21.3.
Birth-rate (live and still births) per 1,000 population, 21.5.
Deaths, 2,889 (Registrar-General's figures). Death-rate per
1,000 of the estimated resident population, 11.9.
Deaths from diseases and accidents of pregnancy and childbirth,
10; from puerperal and post-abortal sepsis, 1;
other causes, 9,