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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 283.6 acres.
Population.
The Registrar General's estimate of total population, mid-year 1957, was
72,170.
Rateable Value.
Rateable value at 1st April, 1957 £1,112,228
Estimated net product of a penny rate, 1957/58 £4,550
Total number of valuation assessments at 31st March, 1957 22,898
Mileage of Roads as at 1st April, 1957.
County Roads, Class I, II, III 41.35 miles
District Roads 86.91 miles
Unadopted Roads 25.9 miles
Total 154.16 miles
Live Births.
Male. Female. Total.
Legitimate 669 616 1,285
Illegitimate 8 9 17
677 625 1,302
Crude birth rate, per 1,000 total population 18.0
Adjusted birth rate for purposes of comparison with other areas 17.8
(Area comparability factor for births is 0.99.)
Birth rate for England and Wales 16.1
Stillbirths.
Male. Female. Total.
Legitimate 9 4 13
Illegitimate — — —
9 4 13
Stillbirth rate 0.18 per 1,000 total population, and 9.9 per 1,000 (live and
still) births.
Deaths.
Male. Female. Total.
333 295 628
Crude death rate 8.7 per 1,000 total population.
Adjusted death rate for purposes of comparison with other areas 9.7.
(Area comparability factor for deaths is 1.12.)
Death rate for England and Wales 11.5.