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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)
1955 110,900
Number of inhabited houses according to rate books
(December, 1955) 34,255
Rateable value (December, 1955) £893,079
Sum represented by a penny rate (December, 1955) £3,440
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
Births.
Number of live births allocated to the district as adjusted
for inward and outward transfers 1,749
(942 males, 807 females)
Birth rate per 1,000 Home Population using area comparability
factor 15.45
Number of stillbirths allocated to the district 39
(14 males, 25 females)
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 Home Population 0.35
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 21.81
Deaths.
Number of deaths of Hornchurch residents as supplied
by the Registrar-General (adjusted for inward and
outward transfers) 1,119
(600 males, 519 females)
Death rate per 1,000 Home Population using area comparability
factor 11.60
Deaths of infants under one year of age 32
(21 males, 11 females)
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 births) 18.29
Deaths of infants under 4 weeks of age 22
(15 males, 7 females)
Neonatal mortality rate (per 1,000 births) 12.57