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Infant mortality rate per 1,000 total live births 12.2
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 live legitimate births 12.6
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 live illegitimate births Nil
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000 total live
births 10.7
Early Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000
total live births) 9.2
Perinatal mortality rate (still births and deaths under one week combined,
per 1,000 total live and still births) 18.9
Infant mortality rate for England and Wales 21.4
Maternal Mortality.
Maternal deaths (including abortion) Nil
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 total live and still births Nil
Maternal mortality rate for England and Wales 0.33
Deaths.
Males Females Total
386 375 761
Crude death rate per 1,000 estimated total population 9.5
Adjusted rate for comparison with other areas . . 10.6
(The area comparability factor for deaths is 1.12)
Death rate for England and Wales 12.0
Population.
The Registrar General's estimate of the total population of the
Urban District, mid-year 1961, was 80,080, which is an increase of
4,060 over the figure for the previous year. This population figure
gives a density of 3.85 persons to the acre.
The natural increase of population, measured by excess of births
over deaths, was 547.
The population figure given in the Preliminary Report on the
1961 Census was 80,277, of which number 38,578 were males and
41,699 females. The intercensal increase (1951-1961) was 16,913
persons or 26.7 per cent. increase in population.