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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)
1952 104,100
Number of inhabited houses according to rate books
(September, 1952) 30,229
Rateable value (September, 1952) £786,825
Sum represented by a penny rate (September, 1952) £3,160
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
Births.
Number of live births allocated to the District as adjusted
for inward and outward transfers 1,517
(770 males, 747 females)
Birth rate per 1,000 Home Population using area comparability
factor 13.84
Number of stillbirths allocated to the District 35
(22 males, 13 females)
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 Home Population 0.33
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 22.54
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 10.49
Deaths of infants under one year of age 49
(29 males, 20 females)
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) 32.30