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STATISTICAL SUMMARY
for the year 1941
Area in acres 7,007
Number of inhabited houses (1941) 28,790
Rateable Value (31st December 1941) £1,028,811
Sum represented by a penny rate 1941/1942 £4,116: 3:7
Total M F
Live births : (a) Legitimate 1,165 586 579
Illegitimate 69 58 31
(b) Legitimate 1,143 567 576
Illegitimate 69 38 31
Birth rate per 1,000 of estimated resident population 13.4
Total M F
Still births : (a) Legitimate 38 17 21
Illegitimate 1 1 -
(b) Legitimate 37 17 20
Illegitimate 1 1 -
Still birth rate per 1,000 total
(live and still) births 30.6
Total M F
Deaths : 1,196 553 643
Death rate per 1,000 of estimated
resident population 13.0
Maternal Deaths :
Puerperal & Post-Abortive Sepsis 1
Other Maternal Causes 1
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 1,6
Death rate of infants under one year of age :–
All infants per 1,000 live births 70.95
Legitimate infants per 1,000 leg, live births 69.1
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illeg. live births 101.45
Deaths from : Cancer (all ages) 183
Measles (all ages) 2
Whooping cough (all ages) 7
Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 12
(a) For calculation of Birth Rate.
(b) For calculation of Infantile and
Maternal Mortality Rates.
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