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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
Area and Population
Area (in acres) 6,728
Registrar General's estimation of resident population 107,060
No. of inhabited houses (end of 1964) according to rate books 32,024
Rateable value (3lst December 1964) £6,318,956
Sum represented by a penny rate (1964/65) €25,774
Vital Statistics
Live Births :
Legitimate (703 male, 696 female) 1,399
Illegitimate (48 male, 53 female) 101
Total (751 male, 749 female) 1,500
Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births 673
Rate per 1,000 population 14,01
Stillbirths :
Legitimate ( 16 male, 7 female) 23
Illegitimate ( 2 male, 1 female) 3
Total (18 male, 8 female) 26
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 17.04
Total live and stillbirths 1,526
Infant deaths 34
Infant mortality rates:
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 22.67
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births 22.16
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live
births 29.70
Neonatal mortality rate (deaths under four weeks per 1,000
total live births) 16.67
Early neonatal mortality rate (deaths under one week per 1,000
total live births) 16.00
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under one
week per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) 32.77
Maternal mortality (including abortion):
Number of deaths
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths
General mortality:
Number of deaths (517 male, 418 female) 935
Death rate per 1,000 population - crude 8.73
Death rate per 1,000 population - adjusted 12.57
Births
The total of 1,500 live births notified during the year is virtually the
same as that for the previous year (1,499). The corrected birth rate per
thousand population was 14.0, compared with 18.4 for England and Wales.
The illegitimate birth rate showed a noticeable rise, being 6.7% of total
live births, compared with 5.2% in 1963 This is less than the national average,
which is
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