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STATISTICAL SUMMARY
1957
Area of Borough 1,689 acres
Population (R.G's mid-year estimate) 165,900
Live Births 2,641
Crude birth rate (per 1,000 population) 15.92
Adjusted birth rate (per 1,000 population) 14.49
Stillbirths 48
Stillbirth rate (per 1,000 total births) 17.85
Deaths 1,738
Crude death rate (per 1,000 population) 10.48
Adjusted death rate (per 1,000 population) 13.10
Deaths of infants under 1 year 51
Infant mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births) 19.31
Deaths of infants under 4 weeks of age 42
Neonatal death rate (deaths per 1,000 live births) 15.90
Maternal deaths 2
Maternal mortality rate (per 1,000 live & stillbirths) 0.74
VARIOUS DISEASES: Cases and Deaths
Cases
Case rate
per 1,000
population
Deaths
Death rate
per 1,000
population
Smallpox
-
-
-
-
Scarlet Fever
247
1.49
-
-
Diphtheria
-
-
-
-
Dysentery
45
0.27
-
-
Food Poisoning
15
0.09
-
-
Measles
2,328
14.03
-
-
Acute Poliomyelitis (paralytic)
7
0.04
-
-
-do- (non-paralytic)
9
0.05
-
-
Whooping Cough
239
1.44
-
-
Meningococcal Infections
6
-
-
-
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers
-
-
-
-
Pneumonia:
Acute, primary and influenzal
147
0.89
-
-
All forms
-
-
104
0.63
Bronchitis
-
-
134
0.81
Tuberculosis:
Respiratory
105
0.63
16
0.10
Other forms
10
0.06
1
0.01
Cancer
-
-
338
2.04
5