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The whole staff of the Department have worked well
throughout the year and have accepted their ever increasing
responsibilities in an admirable spirit.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Area (in acres) 3,477
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1941) 18,146
Rateable Value £901,401
Sum represented by a pennv rate £3,489
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS.
Live Births: Total. Hales. Females.
Legitimate 683 361 322
Illegitimate 38 26 12
Birth rate, 12.42 per 1,000 estimated resident population.
Stillbirths: Total. Males. Females.
20 13 7
Rate, 27 per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
Deaths: Total. Males. Females.
734 337 397
Death rate, 12.65 per 1,000 estimated resident population.
Deaths from diseases and accidents of pregnancy and childbirth;
From sepsis Nil.
From other causes 2
Death rate of infants under one year of age:
All infants per 1,000 live births 21.8
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 18.47
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 76.9
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 1ll
Deaths from Measles (all ages) Nil
Deaths from Whooping-cough (all ages) 3
Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 1