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8
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA
Area (in acres) 12,559
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, mid-year
1951 220 000
Rateable Value (April 1st] 1951) £2,219,810
Sum represented by a penny rate (April 1st, 1951) £8,978
Total number of occupied houses 53,613
Total number of occupied flats 7,941
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
Live Births :— Total Male Female
Legitimate 2,793 1,454 1,339 Birth rate per 1,000
Illegitimate 102 51 51 population, 13-1
Total 2,895 1,505 1,390
Stillbirths :—
Legitimate 70 36 34 Rate per 1,000 total
Illegitimate 1 1 — births, 2-4
Deaths 2,094 1,022 1,072 Death rate per 1,000
population, 9-5
Rate per 1,000
Deaths total births
Deaths from pregnancy, childbirth 3 1.0
Death rate of Infants under one year of age :—
All infants per 1,000 live births 22.1
Legitimate infants 21.8
Illegitimate infants 29.4
Deaths from Cancer 389
„ „ Measles 1
„ „ Whooping cough 2
„ „ Tuberculosis 48
Population.
The mid-year population of the district was 220,000, a decrease of
2,300 on the mid-year population for 1950. The natural increase in
population, i.e., the excess of births over deaths during the year, was 801.
Births.
The total number of live births registered during the year was
2,895 (1,505 male and 1,390 female). Of these, 102 were illegitimate,
being a percentage of total births of 3.5. The number of live births
registered in each of the years from 1944 onwards was 3,473, 3,068, 3,934,
3,828, 3,226, 3,083, 2,848, and 2,895.