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 |
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