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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
1960) 124,590
Number of inhabited houses according to rate books
(December 1960) 39,970
Rateable Value (December 1960) £1,811,656
Sum represented by a Penny Rate (December 1960) £7,330
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
Live Births:
Number 2,437
(1,234 males, 1,203 females)
Rate per 1,000 population 18.38
Illegitimate Live Births per cent of total live births 2.6
Stillbirths:
Number 41
(19 males, 22 females)
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 16.50
Total Live and Still Births 2,478
Infant Deaths (deaths under 1 year) 46
(26 males, 20 females)
Infant Mortality Rates:
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 18.87
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live
births 18.54
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live
births 31.25
Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000
total live births) 15.59
Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 1 week per
1,000 total live births) 13.95
Perinatal Mortality Rate (stillbirths and deaths under
1 week per 1,000 total live and still births 30.36
Maternal Mortality (including abortion):
Number of deaths Nil
Deaths:
Number 1,117
(572 males, 545 females)
Rate per 1,000 population 11.02