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7.
I. - STATISTICS AND GENERAL INFORMATION.
Area - 662 acres. Population, Census 1931 - 97,038; RegistrarGeneral's
estimate, mid-1949 - 45,200 Number of structurally separate
dwellings, 1931 Census - 14,115. Number of houses (end of 1949)
according to rate books - 11,140. Rateable value - £630,644, Sum
represented by penny rate - £2,365.
A great variety of industries is carried on in the Borough's
1,271 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 who are
resident in the Borough is approximately 400.
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR, 1949.
Birth
Male Female Total Rate
Legitimate 424 388 812
Live Births
Illegitimate 30 22 52
454 410 864 19.11
Still births 15 Rate per 1,000 total births 17.18
General death rate (crude rate) 13.11
Percentage of deaths occurring in public institutions 68.6
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of,
childbirth -
From sepsis 1 From other causes Nil
Death rate of infants under one year of age, per 1,000
live births -
Legitimate 39,41, Illegitimate 19.23, Total 38.19
Deaths from measles (all ages) Nil
„ „ whooping cough (all ages) 1
„ „ diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 4
„ „ pulmonary tuberculosis 33
" " all forms of tuberculosis 38
Death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis 0.73
„ „ „ all forms of tuberculosis 0.84