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Deaths 1,240 593 647 Death rate per 1,000 of
the estimated resident
population, 7.7
Deaths. Rate per 1,000 total
Deaths from puerperal causes :— (live and still) births.
Puerperal sepsis ... 2 0.67
Other puerperal causes 10 3.35
Total ... 12 4.02
Death rate of Infants under one year of age :—
All infants per 1,000 live births ... 44.9
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 44.7
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 50.0
Deaths from Measles (all ages) ... 5
Whooping Cough (all ages) ... 4
„ Diarrhœa (under 2 years of age) 13
Measles was prevalent in the spring, but caused few deaths.
Towards the end of the year the influenza epidemic had started
in the district and resulted in a number of fatalities. Scarlet fever
was relatively less prevalent than in the previous recent years,
while the incidence of diphtheria was exceptionally low.
Population.
The mid-year estimate of population is 160,300. This increase
over the figure of 144,280 for mid-year 1935 is partly due to the
natural increase of population (i.e. the excess of births over deaths,
this figure being 1,415 in 1935 and 1,633 in 1936) and partly due
to the occupation of the new houses erected (4,715 in 1935 and
4,173 in 1936).
The number of houses inhabited at December 31st, 1935, was
41,265, the corresponding figure at the end of 1936 being 46,325.
For the years 1934 and 1935 the average number of persons per
house were 3.68 and 3.69.
Birth Rate.
2,873 births were registered during the year, the birth rate for
thousand population being therefore 17.8. The corresponding
figure for England and Wales was 14.8, and the local figures for
1935 and 1934 were 17.5 and 16.4. A high birth-rate can be anticipated
for some years as the occupants of the recently erected
properties will, on an average, contain a higher than normal proportion
of young adults.