Table: TABLE I.Summary of Statistics, 1955.
TABLE I.
Summary of Statistics, 1955.
Population (mid-year 1955, per Registrar General) | 64,780 |
Birth Rate (crude) | 12-7 |
Death Rate (crude) | 11-4 |
Maternal Mortality Rate | Nil |
Infant Mortality Rite | 31-6 |
Number of Births (Live) | 823 |
Number of Stillbirths | 11 |
Number of Deaths | 741 |
Number of Maternal Deaths | Nil |
Number of Infant Deaths (under 1 year) | 26 |
Death Rates:—Respiratory Diseases | 1*5 |
Tuberculosis | 008 |
Cancer (all forms) | 1-84 |
Cancer of the Lung | 0-39 |
Zymotic Diseases | 003 |
Notifications of Infectious Diseases: |
Diphtheria | Nil |
Dysentery | 14 |
Erysipelas | 9 |
Food Poisoning | 4 |
Measles | 760 |
Pneumonia (all forms) | 23 |
Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | 5 |
Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | 9 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 33 |
Scarlet Fever | 51 |
Tuberculosis (new cases and including inward transfers) | 86 |
Typhoid and Para-Typhoid Fever | 1 |
Whooping Cough | 124 |
Number of Deaths from Infectious Diseases | 2 |
...... „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | Nil |
Number of visits made by Sanitary Inspectors | 12,446 |