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GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area 4,343 acres.
Population 131,100
No. of inhabited houses (1921) 25,526
Rateable value £520,754
Sum represented by a penny rate £1,955
m. f.
Birth Legitimate 1,143
1,105
Iiiegtimate 18 25 birth rate 17.4 m f
Deaths registered within District 786 382 404
No. registered of non-residents 39 25 14
No. of residents dying without the District 554 296 258
Death-rate 1924 10.01
No. of women dying in, or in consequence of, From Sepsis 4
child-birth other causes 8
Deaths of infants under one year of age, per 1,000 births—
Legitimate, 627 ; Illegitimate, 1395 ; Total, 64-1.
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 11
„ Whooping Cough (all ages) 17
„ „ Diarrhcea (under two years of age) 12
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEAR.
Disease
Total cases
notified.
Cases admitted
to hospital.
Total
deaths.
Diphtheria
257
228
4
Scarlet Fever
185
144
1
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid)
6
3
-
Puerperal Fever
3
3
4
Pneumonia
170
48
128
Tuberculosis—
Pulmonary
Males
101
88
69
Females
101
88
53
Non-pulmonary
Males
24
24
6
Females
32
25
15
Those failing with Scarlet Fever were less by about half the
number, and those with Diphtheria 45 greater than in 1923.