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SECTION A
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Area in acres (including hall of tidal basin) 20, 308
Registrar-General's estimate of Home Population
(mid-year 1961) 131,070
Number of inhabited houses according to rate books
(December 1961) 40,208
Rateable Value (December 1961) £1,874, 107
Sum represented by a penny Rate (December 1961) £7, 675
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
Live Births:
Number 2,399
(1, 226 males,1, 173 females)
Rate per 1,000 population 17.01
Illegitimate Live Births (percent of total live births) 2.3
Stillbirths:
Number 41
(22 males, 19 females)
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 16.8
Total Live and Stillbirths 2,440
Infant Deaths (deaths under 1 year) 54
(30 males, 24 females)
Infant Mortality Rates:
Total infant deaths per 1, 000 total live births 22.92
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births 21.75
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live births 54.54
Neo-Natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000
total live births) 16.25
Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 1 week per
1,000 total live births) 15.42
Perinatal Mortality Rate (stillbirths and deaths under 1 week
combined per 1,000 total live and still births) 31.96
Maternal Mortality (including abortion):
Number of deaths 1
Rate per 1,000 total live and still births 41
Deaths:
Number 1,134
(581 males, 553 females)
Rate per 1,000 population 10.52