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10
SECTION A
VITAL AND OTHER STATISTICS AND
SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
Area.
The area of the Urban District is 20,842 acres.
Parks, Open Spaces, Recreation Grounds, etc., comprise 273.5 acres.
Population.
The Registrar General's estimate of total population, mid-year 1956, was
70,410.
Rateable Value.
Rateable value at 1st April, 1956 £1,080,594
Estimated net product of a penny rate, 1956/57 £4,470
Total number of valuation assessments at 31st March, 1956 22,745
Mileage of Roads as at 1st April, 1956.
County Roads, Class I, II, III 41.35
District Roads 82.62
Unadopted Roads 39.25
Total 163.22
Live Births.
Male. Female. Total.
Legitimate 597 577 1,174
Illegitimate 23 22 45
620 599 1,219
Crude birth rate, per 1,000 total population 17.3
Adjusted birth rate for purposes of comparison with other areas 17.1
(Area comparability factor for births is 0.99.)
Stillbirths.
Male. Female. Total.
Legitimate 9 11 20
Illegitimate — — —
9 11 20
Stillbirth rate 0.28 per 1,000 total population, and 16.1 per 1,000 (live and
still) births.
Deaths.
Male. Female. Total.
344 304 648
Crude death rate 9.2 per 1,000 total population.
Adjusted death rate for purposes of comparison with other areas 9.9.
(Area comparability factor for deaths is 1.08.)