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Population.
The Registrar General's estimate of the total population of the
Urban District, mid-year 1962, was 80,950, which is an increase of
870 over the figure for the previous year. This population figure
gives a density of 3.88 persons to the acre.
The natural increase of population, measured by excess of births
over deaths, was 636.

Births.
1,407 live births appertaining to the area were registered during
1962, of which 727 were males and 680 females. 1,356 of these births
were legitimate and 51 illegitimate. The crude birth rate for the
Urban District was 17.4 per 1,000 total population,, (which is an
increase of 1.1 over the rate for the previous year and is only 0.6 below
the rate for England and Wales as a whole (18.0).
The illegitimate birth rate was 36.3 per 1,000 live and still births,
or 3.6 per cent of the total live births. There were 51 illegitimate
live births, of which 23 were males and 28 females.
There were 15 more illegitimate live births in 1962 than in 1961.
24 stillbirths were registered, giving a rate of 16.8 per 1.000 live
and still births, and 0.3 per 1,000 total population. 14 of the stillbirths
were males and 10 females.
The stillbirth rate for England and Wales as a whole was 18.1
per 1,000 total births.