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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
1963) 133,380
Number of inhabited houses according to rate books
(December 1963) 41,201
Rateable Value (December 1963) £6,095,760
Sum represented by a Penny Rate (December 1963) £25,020
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
Live Births:
Number 2,539
(1,312 males. 1,227 females)
Rate per 1,000 population 16.93
Illegitimate Live Births (per cent of total live births) 3.5
Stillbirths:
Number 41
(23 males, 18 females)
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 15.88
Total Live and Stillbirths 2,580
Infant Deaths (deaths under 1 year) 35
(21 males, 14 females)
Infant Mortality Rates:
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 13.78
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live
births 14.29
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live
births Nil
Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000
total live births) 11.02
Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 1 week per
total live births) 7.87
Perinatal Mortality Rate (stillbirths and deaths under
1 week combined per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 23.64
Maternal Mortality (including abortion):
Number of deaths 2
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 0.77
Deaths:
Number 1,252
(656 males, 596 females)
Rate per 1,000 population 11.72