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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)
1953 105,100
Number of inhabited houses according to rate books
(September, 1953) 31,304
Rateable value (September, 1953) . £801,352
Sum represented by a penny rate (September, 1953) £3,205
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
Births.
Number of live births allocated to the District as adjusted
for inward and outward transfers 1,591
(791 males, 800 females)
Birth rate per 1,000 Home Population using area comparability
factor 14.83
Number of stillbirths allocated to the District 28
(17 males, 11 females)
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 Home Population 0.27
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 17.29
Deaths.
Number of deaths of Hornchurch residents as supplied by
the Registrar-General (adjusted for inward and outward
transfers) 1,205
Death rate per 1,000 Home Population using area comparability
factor 13.18
Deaths of infants under one year of age 48
(27 males, 21 females)
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 births) 30.17