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STATISTICAL SUMMARY
1958
Area of Borough 4,689 acres
Population (R.G's mid-year estimate) 165,000
Live Births 2,711
Crude birth rate (per 1,000 population) 16.43
Adjusted birth rate (per 1,000 population) 15.12
Stillbirths 8l
Stillbirth rate (per 1,000 total births) 29.01
Total live and still births 2,792
Deaths 1,610
Crude death rate (per 1,000 population) 9.76
Adjusted death rate (per 1,000 population) 12.20
Deaths of infants under 1 year 52
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) 19.18
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) Legitimate 19.87
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) illegitimate 6.94
Neo-natal (1st 4 weeks) mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) 14.75
Illegitimate live births per cent, of total live births 5.31
Maternal deaths (including abortion) 1
Maternal mortality rate (per 1.000 live and stillbirths) 0.36
VARIOUS DISEASES: Cases and Deaths
Cases
Notified
Case rate
per 1,000
population
Deaths
Death rate
per 1,000
population
Smallpox
-
-
-
-
Scarlet Fever
374
2.27
-
-
Diphtheria
-
-
-
-
Dysentery
138
0.84
-
-
Food Poisoning
30
0.18
-
-
Measles
411
2.49
-
-
Acute Poliomyelitis (paralytic)
2
0.01)
1
0.01
(non-paralytic)
1
0.01)
-
-
Whooping Cough
242
1.47
-
-
Meningococcal Infections
5
0.03
-
-
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers
-
-
-
-
Pneumonia:
Acute, primary and influenzal
88
0.53)
82
0.50
A11 forms
-
- )
Bronchitis
-
-
148
0.90
Tuberculosis:
Respiratory
95
0.58
15
0.09
Other forms
14
0.08
-
-
Cancer
-
-
327
1.98
5