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POPULATION.
The Census taken List year showed that the population in
June was 39,120, as against the Registrar-General's estimate of
40,550 for the previous year.
The number of inhabited houses in July last was 9,642,
which gives an average of between 4.1 and 4.2 persons per house.
To be on the conservative side, I have based the statistics
for iast year on a population of 39,000.
The natural increase of the population by excess of births
over deaths was 290, as against 344 in the previous year.
BIRTHS- BIRTH-RATE.
The nett total of births accredited to this District is 603, a
decrease of 96 on the preceding year; of these 296 were males
and 307 females (10 males and 9 females being illegitimate). The
birth-rate was, therefore, 15.4 per 1,000 of the population, as
against 17 in 1920 and 1.13 in 1919.
The birth-rate for England and Wales was 22 4.
MORTALITY.
General Mortality and Death-rate.—The nett number
of deaths accredited to this District was 307.
This gives a death-rate of 7.8 per 1,000 of the population, a
decrease of 0 9 on the rate of the previous year.
The average rate for the previous ten years was 8.7.
The death-rate for England and Wales was 121.
Infantile Mortality.—There were 22 deaths of infants
under 1 year of age (3 of them illegitimate), which gives an
infantile death-rate of 36.4 per 1,000 births registered, as against
35.7 in the preceding year, 52.1 in 1919, and 26.8 in 1918. The
average rate for the 10 years 1912-1921 was 46.4.