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8.
I. - STATISTICS AND GENERAL INFORMATION-
Area - 662 acres. Population, Census 1931 - 97,038; RegistrarGeneral's
estimate, mid-1951 - 45,010. Number of structurally separate
dwellings, 1931 Census - 14,115. Number of houses (end of 1951) according
to rate books 11,510. Rateable value - £622,192. Sum represented by
penny rate - £2,460.
A great variety of industries is carried on in the Borough's 1,208
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 350.
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR,1951.
Male
Female
Total
Birth
Rate
Live Births
Legitimate
415
360
775
18.44
illegitimate
28
27
55
443
387
830
Still births 14 Rate per 1,000 total births 16.58
General death rate (crude rate) 13.37
Percentage of deaths occurring in public institutions 57.6
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 15.66. Illegitimate Nil. Total 15.66
Neo-natal death rate per 1,000 live births 7.23
Deaths from measles (all ages) Nil
„ „ Whooping cough (all ages Nil
„ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 1
Pulmonary tuberculosis 16
• „ all forms of tuberculosis 16
Death rate from Pulmonary tuberculosis 0.35
„ all forms of tuberculosis 0.35