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STATISTICAL SUMMARY
for the year 1940
Area in acres 7,007
Population - estimated, to mid-year, 1940
(as supplied by the Registrar General) 94,070
Number of inhabited houses (1940) 23,736
Rateable Value (31st December 1940) £1,034,930
Sum represented by a penny rate £4,005.3.2.
Total M F
Live births: (a) Legitimate 1322 672 650
Illegitimate 58 22 36
(b) Legitimate 1316 670 646
Illegitimate 59 22 37
Birth rate per 1,000 of estimated resident population 14.67
Total M F
Still births: (a) Legitimate 51 27 24
Illegitimate - - -
(b) Legitimate 48 27 21
Illegitimate - - -
Still birth rate per 1,000 total
(live and still) births 35.6
Total M P
Deaths: 1395 701 694
Crude death rate per 1,000 of estimated
resident population 14.8
Adjusted death rate 14.9
Maternal Deaths:
Puerperal & Post-Abortive Sepsis 1
Other Maternal Causes. 1
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 1.4
Death rate of infants under one year of age:-
All infants per 1,000 live births 45.8
Legitimate infants per 1,000 leg. live births. 44.8
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illeg. live births 67.79
Deaths from: Cancer (all ages) 169
Measles (all ages) 2
Whooping cough (all ages) -
Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 10
(a) For calculation of Birth Rate,
(b) For calculation of Infantile and
Maternal Mortality Rates.
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