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Area and Rateable Value.
The area of the district is 2,644 acres.
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, 1949, 40,630.
Rateable Value (at 31st December, 1949), £395,598.
Product of a penny rate for 1949-50, £1,594.
Vital Statistics.
Total. M. F.
Live Births. Legitimate 527 252 275
Illegitimate 20 8 12
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 13.4
(The birth rate for England and Wales was 16.7).
Stillbirths 7 4 3
Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 11.2
Total. M. F.
Deaths 363 165 198
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 8.9
(The death rate for England and Wales was 11.7.)
There were no deaths from puerperal causes.
Death rate of Infants under one year of age:—
All Infants per 1,000 live births 10.9
Legitimate Infants per 1,000 Legitimate live births 11.3
Illegitimate Infants per 1,000 Illegitimate live births -
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 69
„ Measles (all ages) 1
„ Whooping Cough (all ages) 0
„ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 0
Birth Rate.
There were 547 births (20 illegitimate) during the year. The
birth rate is 13.4 per 1,000 of the estimated resident population, as
compared with 15.3 last year. The births last year numbered 613,
including 22 illegitimate.
Death Rate.
There were 363 deaths (364 last year), giving a rate of 8.9
compared with 9T last year.
Infantile Death Rate.
There were 6 deaths of children under one year as compared
with 9 last year, a death rate per 1,000 live births of 10.9. Last
year the figure was 14.6 and for 1947 30.0. For England and Wales
the rate was 32 for 1949 and 34 for 1948.
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.
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