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Area and Rateable Value
The area of the district is 2,644 acres.
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, 1952, 40,780.
Rateable Value (at 31st December, 1952), £405,774.
Product of a penny rate for 1952-53, £1,658.
Vital Statistics
Total M. F.
Live Births. Legitimate 467 246 221
Illegitimate 12 5 7
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 11.7
(The birth rate for England and Wales was 15.3)
Stillbirths 11 9 2
Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 22.9
Total M. F.
Deaths 378 194 184
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 9.3
(The death rate for England and Wales was 11.3)
There were no deaths from puerperal causes.
Death rate of Infants under one year of age:—
All Infants per 1,000 live births 14
Legitimate Infants per 1,000 Legitimate live births 15
Illegitimate Infants per 1,000 Illegitimate live births
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 73
„ „ Measles (all ages) 0
„ „ Whooping Cough (all ages) 0
Birth Rate
There were 479 births (12 illegitimate) during the year. The birth
rate is 11.7 per 1,000 of the estimated resident population, as
compared with 12.1 last year. The births last year numbered 492
including 21 illegitimate.
Death Rate
There were 378 deaths (371 last year), giving a rate of 9.3.
Infantile Death Rate
There were 7 deaths of children under one year as compared
with 10 last year, a death rate per 1,000 live births of 14.6. Last
year the figure was 20.3 and for 1950 17.4. For England and Wales
the rate was 27.6 for 1952, and 29.6 for 1951.
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