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Area and Rateable Value.
The area of the district is 2,644 acres.
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, 1944, 34,610.
Rateable Value (at 31st December, 1944), £385,558.
Estimated product of a penny rate for 1944, £1,540.
Vital Statistics.
Total. M. F.
Live Births. Legitimate 688 332 356
Illegitimate 20 14 6
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 20.45
(The birth rate for England and Wales was 17.6).
Stillbirths9 6 3
Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 12.5
Total. M. F.
Deaths377 200 177
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 10.8
(The death rate for England and Wales was 11.6).
There were no deaths from puerperal sepsis or other puerperal
causes.
Death Rate of Infants under one year of age :—
All Infants per 1,000 live births 35.3
Legitimate Infants per 1,000 Legitimate live births 33.4
Illegitimate Infants per 1,000 Illegitimate live births 100.0
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 79
,, Measles (all ages) 0
,, Whooping Cough (all ages) 2
,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 1
Infantile Death Rate.
There were 25 deaths of children under one year as compared
with 17 last year, a death rate per 1,000 live births of 35.3. Last
year the figure was 25.7 and for 1942, 33.3. For England and
Wales the rate was 46.
Prevalence of, and Control over, Infectious Diseases.
With the exception of Mumps, all cases of infectious disease
are now notifiable in the area, and particulars of those cases notified
are given in Table 1.
With regard to Diphtheria, every facility for prompt diagnosis
and treatment is placed at the disposal of local doctors, swabs for
examinations of throat, etc., and a supply of antitoxin are kept in
readiness at the Town Hall. In addition, the Council has now
given facilities for the supply of immunising serum.