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SECTION A.
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Area in acres (including half of tidal basin) 20,308
Registrar-General's estimate of Home Population (midyear)
1950 103,700
Number of inhabited houses according to rate books
(September, 1950) 29,268
Rateable value (September, 1950) £759,493
Sum represented by a penny rate £3,110
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
Births.
Number of live births allocated to the District as adjusted
for inward and outward transfers 1,478
(737 males, 741 females)
Birth rate per 1,000 Home Population using area comparability
factor 13.68
Number of stillbirths allocated to the District 27
(14 males, 13 females)
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 Home Population 0.26
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 17.94
Deaths.
Number of deaths of Hornchurch residents as supplied
by the Registrar-General (adjusted for inward and
outward transfers) 900
Death rate per 1,000 Home Population using area comparability
factor 10.43
Deaths of infants under one year of age 41
(23 males, 18 females)
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) 27.74