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SUMMARY.
1937.
Area of borough 4,689 acres
Average height above sea level 25 feet
Census population, 1931 (males 143,714)
(females 150,564) 294,278
Population, 1937 (Registrar-General's
mid-year estimate) 259,500
Estimated number of houses 50,247
Number of families (1931 Census) 72,994
Number of persons per acre 56
Rateable value 1,518,245
Sum represented by a penny rate £5,942
West Ham England & Wales
average. average.
1937 1927-1936 1937 1927-1936
Live births 4,148 5,064 610,557* 623,508
Birth-rate (per 1,000 population)
16.1 17.3 14.9* 15.6
Stillbirths 145 165 24,806* 26,242
(1928—1936) (1928—1936)
Stillbirth rate (per 1,000
total live and still births) 34 32 39* 40
(1928—1936)
Marriage rate (persons
married per 1,000 living) 22.3 — 17.4* 16.1
Number of deaths 3,107 3,326 509,571* 485,512
Crude death-rate (per 1,000
population) 12.0 11.4 12.4* 12.1
Adjusted death-rate 13.8 — — —
Excess of births over deaths 81 — — —
Deaths of infants under one
year 259 331 — 39,871
Infantile mortality rate
(deaths per 1,000 live
births) 62 65 58* 64
Deaths of women in childbirth:
Puerperal sepsis 2 6.6 — 1,077
Other causes 3 6.6 — 1,579
Total maternal deaths 5 13.2 — 2,656
Maternal death-rate
per 1,000 total births 1.15 2.61 3.11* 4.26
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