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I.—STATISTICS AND GENERAL INFORMATION
Area—662 acres. Population, Census 1931—97,038; Registrar-General's
estimate, mid-1947—44,610. Number of structurally separate dwellings, 1931
Census—14,115. Number of houses (end of 1947) according to rate books—9,435.
Rateable value—£630,647. Sum represented by penny rate—£2,556.
A great variety of industries is carried on in the Borough's 1,143 factories.
Furniture-making is one of the most common of these, and one which is by tradition
firmly established in the Borough. The number of home workers notified under
the Factories Act was 420.

Still births 32 Rate per 1,000 total births 29.74
General death rate (crude rate) 14.82
Percentage of total deaths occurring in public institutions 72.6
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth—
From sepsis Nil From other causes Nil
Death rate of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births—
Legitimate 40.78 Illegitimate 47.62 Total 41.19
Deaths from measles (all ages) Nil
„ whooping cough (all ages) 4
„ „ diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 4
„ „ pulmonary tuberculosis 30
„ „ all forms of tuberculosis 33
Death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis 0.67
„ „ „ all forms of tuberculosis 0.74