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Area and Rateable Value.
The area of the district is 2,644 acres.
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, 1946, 39,160
Rateable Value (at 31st December, 1946, £382,849.
Estimated product of a penny rate for 1946, £1,550.
Vital Statistics.
Total. M. P.
Live Births. Legitimate 742 383 359
Illegitimate 21 8 13
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 19.4
(The birth rate for England and Wales was 19.1).
Stillbirths 17 10 7
Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 21.7
Total. M. F.
Deaths 372 176 196
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 9.4
(The death rate for England and Wales was 11.5).
There were no deaths from puerperal causes.
Death rate of Infants under one. year of age :—
All Infants per 1,000 live births 36.6
Legitimate Infants per 1,000 Legitimate live births 36.3
Illegitimate Infants per 1,000 Illegitimate live births 47.6
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 75
,, Measles (all ages) 0
,, Whooping Cough (all ages) 0
,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 1
Birth Rate.
There were 763 births (21 illegitimate) during the year. The
birth rate is higher, 19.6 per 1,000 of the estimated resident population,
as compared with 16.9 last year. The births last year numbered
597 including 26 illegitimate.
Death Rate.
There were 372 deaths, (363 last year) giving a rate of 9.4
compared with 10.2 last year.
Infantile Death Rate.
There were 28 deaths of children under one year as compared
with 15 last year, a death rate per 1,000 live births of 36.6. Last
year the figure was 25.1 and for 1946 35.3. For England and
Wales the rate was 43 for 1946 and 46 for 1945.
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.