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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Croydon 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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STATISTICS
SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1949.
Area, 12,672 acres.
Population (Census 1931), 233,115. Total Population
(estimate of Registrar-General), 250,040 (Civilian,
249,740).
Number of Inhabited Houses: (1931 Census), 56,429; 1949,
66,780.
Rateable Value (1st April, 1949), £2,562,426.
Product of a Penny Rate (1948-1949), £10,450.
Rate in the £ : 15s. 6d.
Live Births
M. F. Total.
Legitimate 1,965 1,856 3,821
Illegitimate 106 89 195
4,016
Birth-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population,
16.1.
Still Births, 86. Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births,
21.0.
Deaths, 2,734 (Registrar-General's figures). Death-rate per
1,000 of the estimated resident population, 10.9.
Death-rate (as adjusted by comparability factor, 0.94), 10.3.
Infant mortalitv rate, 29 per 1,000 live births.
Legitimate Infants (110 deaths), 29 per 1,000 live births.
Illegimate Infants (6 deaths), 31 per 1,000 live births.