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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,
1948 218,700
Rateable Value (April 1st, 1948) £2,187,095
Sum represented by a penny rate (April 1st, 1948) £8,775
Total number of occupied houses 52,069
Total number of occupied flats 7,601
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
Live Births:— Total Male Female
Legitimate 3,108 1,571 1,537 Birth rate per 1,000 of
Illegitimate 118 52 66 the estimated resi-
Total ... 3,226 1,623 1,603 dent population, 14-7
Stillbirths :—
Legitimate 66 40 26 Rate per 1,000 total
Illegitimate 3 3 - (live and still) births,
Total 69 43 26 2 1
Deaths 1,837 922 915 Death rate per 1,000 of
the estimated resident
population, 8-4
Rate per 1,000
Deaths from puerperal causes :— total (live and
Deaths still) births
Puerperal sepsis 0 0
Other puerperal causes 2 0.6
Total 2 0.6
Death rate of Infants under one year of age :—
All infants per 1,000 live births 288
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 25.7
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 110.0
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 359
„ ,, Measles (all ages) 1
„ „ Whooping Cough (all ages) 4
„ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 9
Population.
The mid-year population of the district was 218,700, an increase
of 2,770 on the mid-year population for 1947. The estimated population
at the end of the year was 219,900. The natural increase in population,
i.e., the excess of births over deaths during the year, was 1,409. Part
of the rest of the increase would be the result of influx of population into
the new houses, particularly the 318 put up by the London County
Council; the occupants of the 365 new Council houses would be persons
already living in the district.