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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 (mid-year)
1951 103,800
Number of inhabited houses according to rate books
(September, 1951) 29,923
Rateable value (September, 1951) £773,022
Sum represented by a penny rate £3,135
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
Births.
Number of live births allocated to the District as adjusted
for inward and outward transfers 1,544
(754 males, 790 females)
Birth rate per 1,000 Home Population using area comparability
factor 14.11
Number of stillbirths allocated to the District 32
(22 males, 10 females)
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 Home Population 0.30
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 20.30
Deaths.
Number of deaths of Hornchurch residents as supplied by
the Registrar-General (adjusted for inward and outward
transfers) 926
Death rate per 1,000 Home Population using area comparability
factor 10.39
Deaths of infants under one year of age 26
(14 males, 12 females)
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) 16.84