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8
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA
Area (in acres) 12,555
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population mid-year
1955 217,100
Rateable Value (1st April, 1955) £2,313,467
Sum represented by a penny rate (1st April, 1955) £9,555
Total number of occupied houses 54,819
Total number of occupied flats 8,753

Deaths of infants under one year of age 47
Infant mortality rate 17.6
Legitimate infant mortality rate16.6
Illegitimate infant mortality rate 27.3
Deaths from pregnancy and childbirth: 1 Rate per 1,000 total
births 0.35
Deaths from Cancer 403
„ „ Measles 0
„ „ Whooping Cough 0
„ „ Tuberculosis 14
Population
The mid-year population of the district was estimated to be 217,100
This includes members of the armed forces stationed in the district.
In each of the post-war years the population of the district increased
to reach the highest figure of 222,300 in 1950. From that time there has
been a slight fall each year in the estimated population, the figure for
mid-year 1955 being 217,100, a fall of 600 on the figure for the previous
year. This fall took place in spite of the natural increase in population
which is the excess of births over deaths and which last year was 610.
Some at least of the fall is to be explained by the movement of some
families out of the district to new and to expanded towns. Quite apart
from these transfers though there is a steady movement of population in
and out of such districts as this.