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STATISTICAL SUMMARY
for the year 1942
Area in acres 7,007
Number of inhabited houses (1942) 28,790
Rateable Value (51st December 1942) £1,031,978
Sum represented by a penny rate £4,160; 5; 0.
Total
M
F
Live births:
Legitimate 1,437 742 695
Illegitimate 88 43 45
Birth rate per 1,000 of estimated resident population 16.49
Total
M
F
Still births:
Legitimate 42 20 22
Illegitimate 5 4 1
Still birth rate per 1,000 total
(live and still) births 29.9
Total M F
Deaths:
1,075 528 547
Death rate per 1,000 of estimated
resident population 11.6
Maternal deaths:
Puerperal & Post-Abortive Sepsis
Other Maternal Causes 2
Rate per 1,000 Dotal (live and still) births 1.27
Death rate of infants under one year of age:-
All infants per 1,000 live births 53.l
Legitimate infants per 1,000 leg. live births 50.1
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illeg. live births 102.3
Deaths from:
Cancer (all ages) 203
Measles (all ages) 1
Whooping cough (all ages) 3
Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 16
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