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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)
1957 117,400
Number of inhabited houses according to rate books
(December, 1957) 37,195
Rateable value (December, 1957) £1,522,363
Sum represented by a penny rate (December, 1957) £6,030
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
Births.
Number of live births allocated to the district as adjusted
for inward and outward transfers 2,121
(1,089 males, 1,032 females)
Birth rate per 1,000 Home Population using area comparability
factor 17.15
Number of stillbirths allocated to the district 41
(19 males, 22 females)
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 Home Population 0.35
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 18.95
Deaths.
Number of deaths of Hornchurch residents as supplied by
the Registrar-General (adjusted for inward and outward
transfers) 1,303
(655 males, 648 females)
Death rate per 1,000 Home Population using area comparability
factor 10.42
Deaths of infants under one year of age 40
(23 males, 17 females)
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 births) 18.85
Deaths of infants under four weeks of age 24
(17 males, 7 females)
Neonatal mortality rate (per 1,000 births) 11.31

*Area Comparability Factor returned.