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5
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA.
Area (in acres) 12,558
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, midyear,
1941 —
Rateable Value (April 1st, 1942) £2,109,510
Sum represented by a penny rate (April 1st, 1942) 8,250
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year
Live Births :— Total. Male. Female.
Legitimate 2,625 1,364 1,2611
Illegitimate 126 63 63
Birth rate per 1,000 of
the estimated resident
population, —
Stillbirths:—
Legitimate 75 41 34
Illegitimate 4 1 3
Rate per 1,000 total
(live and still) births,
42
Deaths 1,774 885 889
Death rate per 1,000 of
the estimated resident
population, —
Rate per 1,000
Deaths from puerperal causes :— total (live and
Deaths. still) births.
Puerperal sepsis 3 1.06
Other puerperal causes 6 2.12
Total 9 3.18
Death rate of Infants under one year of age:—
All infants per 1,000 live births 55.6
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 50.5
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 103.2
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 288
Measles (all ages) 2
„ „ Whooping Cough (all ages) 8
„ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 28
Population.
— , the Registrar-General's estimate of the civilian population,
is a rise on the figure of — in the previous year.
Reference was made in last year's report to the constant changes
in the population even though the totals remained much the same,
hat this process is continuing is indicated by the fact that the weekly
average number of children under six years of age admitted to the
district during the last months of the year was 65, while for the same
Period a weekly average of 52 left.