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SUMMARY.
1934.
Area of Borough 662 acres
Average height above sea-level 60 feet
Population (Registrar-General's mid-year estimate) 90,630
Estimated number of houses 14,077
Number of families (1931 census) 25,156
Rateable value £825,378
Sum represented by a penny rate £3.439
Birth rate (rate per 1,000 living)
Still births (rate per 1,000 total births)
Death rate (deaths per 1,000 living)
(adjusted)
Marriage rate (persons married per
1,000 living)
Infantile Mortality rate—
(deaths under 1 year per 1,000
births)
Maternal Mortality rate (deaths per
1,000 live births)
Death rate from Pneumonia and
Bronchitis
„ „ Cancer
,, ,, Diarrhoea and
Enteritis (under 2 years) per 1,000
births
1934.
16.06
31.27
14.4
20.5
84
0.69
2.07
1.48
21.29
Average.
1924-1933.
20.48
31.05*
13.18
18.62
77
2.74
2.34
1.29
13.39
London.
Average.
1934. 1924-33.
13.2 159
31 32.5*
12.14 12.08
16.9 18.30
67 65
2.48 3.25
1.37 1.69
1.72 1.54
12.8 10.43
Smallpox
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria
Typhoid Fever
†Measles
Puerperal Fever
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Other forms of Tuberculosis
Cases.
2
364
288
0
—
6
132
26
Caserate.
0.02
4.02
3.18
—
—
0.06
1.45
0.29
Deaths.
0
2
13
0
29
0
84
10
Deathrate.
0.02
0.14
0.32
0.93
0.11
*Average rate for 1930-1933. Still births were not recorded before 1930.
†Not notifiable.