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Area and Rateable Value
The area of the district is 2,644 acres.
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, 1950, 40,690.
Rateable Value (at 31st December, 1950), £396,396.
Product of a penny rate for 1950-51, £1,601.
Vital Statistics
Total M. F.
Live Births. Legitimate 505 247 258
Illegitimate 11 8 3
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 12.6
(The birth rate for England and Wales was 15-8)
Stillbirths 4 1 3
Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 7*6
Total M. F.
Deaths 372 180 192
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 9.1
(The death rate for England and Wales was 11.6)
There were no deaths from puerperal causes.
Death rate of Infants under one year of age:—
All Infants per 1,000 live births 17.4
Legitimate Infants per 1,000 Legitimate live births 15.8
Illegitimate Infants per 1,000 Illegitimate live births 90.9
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 86
„ „ Measles (all ages) 1
„ „ Whoopine Cough (all ages) 1
Birth Rate
There were 516 births (11 illegitimate) during the year. The birth
rate is 12.6 per 1,000 of the estimated resident population, as
compared with 13.4 last year. The births last year numbered 547,
including 20 illegitimate.
Death Rate
There were 372 deaths (363 last year), giving a rate of 9.1 compared
with 8-9 last year.
Infantile Death Rate
There were 9 deaths of children under one year as compared
with 6 last year, a death rate per 1,000 live births ot 17.4. Last
year the figure was 10.9 and for 1948, 14.6. For England and Wales
the rate was 29.8 for 1950 and 32 for 1949.
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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