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SECTION A. — STATISTICS AND
SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Area (in acres—Census, 1951) 3,212
Population (Census, 1951) 58,141
Home Population (mid-1954) 58,150
Number of occupied dwellings:—
1921 (Census) 11,926
1931 (Census) 13,325
1951 (Census) 16,047
Number of private households:—
1921 (Census) 13,998
1931 (Census) 15,883
1951 (Census) 19,185
Rateable Value:— £849,324.
Sum represented by penny rate:— £3,433.
Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year 1954.
(Registrar-General's Figures.)
Total M. F.
Legitimate 749 390 359
Live Births Illegitimate 35 17 18
Total 784 407 377
Total M. F.
Legitimate 17 10 7
Stillbirths Illegitimate 11
Total 18 11 7
Live birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated home population 13.48
Corrected live birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated home
population 12.94
Still-birth Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 22.44
Total M. F.
Deaths 619 296 323
Crude Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated home population 10.64
Corrected Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated home population 8.51
Deaths from puerperal causes—
Rate per 1,000
total (live and
Deaths. still) births.
Puerperal and post-abortive sepsis — —
Other maternal causes — —
Total — —
Death Rate of infants under one year of age:—
All infants per 1,000 live births 15.30
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 14.68
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 28.57
Deaths from cancer 132
„ „ diphtheria —
„ „ poliomyelitis 1
measles —
whooping cough —
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