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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Summary
Area (acres) 20,061
Population (Registrar General's Mid-1972 Estimate) 265,910
Number of structurally separate dwellings, including flats 93,163
Rateable value £19,535,237
Product of a new penny rate £192,000
Live births Number 3,559
Rate per 1,000 population (crude) 13.4
Ratio of local adjusted birth rate to national rate 0.92
Rate per 1,000 population (standardised) 13.7
England and Wales 14.8
Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births 7.0
England and Wales 9.0
Stillbirths Number 31
Rate per 1,000 total live births and stillbirths 9.0
England and Wales 12.0
Total live and stillbirths 3,590
Infantmortality Infant deaths (deaths under the age of 1 year) 54
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 15
England and Wales 18
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births 14
England and Wales 17
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live births 33
England and Wales 21
Neo natal mortality rate (deaths under age of 4 weeks per 1,000 total live births) 12
England and Wales 12
Early neo natal mortality rate (deaths under the age of 1 week per 1,000 total live births) 10
England and Wales 10
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under the age of 1 week combined per 1,000
total live and stillbirths) 18
England and Wales 22
Maternal mortality Number of deaths 2
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 0.6
Deaths Number of deaths from all causes 3,291
Death rate per 1,000 home population (crude) 12.4
Ratio of local adjusted death rate to national rate 0.95
Death rate per 1,000 home population (standardised) 11.5
England and Wales 12.1
Deaths from cancer (all forms) 705
Death rate from cancer (all forms) per 1,000 population 2.7
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