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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
(Land and Inland Water)
Area (in Acres) (Tidal Water) 13,983
TCegistrar-General's Estimate of resident Population:—
June 30th 1965 247,960
Number of inhabited houses (April 1st, 1965) according to Hate Books
(approx.) 76,310
Hateable Value — April 1st, 1965 (approx.) £12,500,000
Sum represented by a penny rate, April 1st, 1965 (approx.) 651,215
1965-66
General Rate 10s.6d.
in the £
The following figures as to unemployment were supplied by the Ministry of
Labour:—
Males Females
As at December, 1965 416 41
1965
Live Births 3,826
Live Birth rate per 1,000 population—Crude rate 15.43
Adjusted rate 15.89
Illegitimate Live Births per cent of total live births 6.85
Stillbirths 61
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 15.69
Total Live and Stillbirths 3,887
Infant deaths (under 1 year) 63
Total Infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 16.47
Legitimate deaths per 1,000 legitimate births 15.99
Illegitimate deaths per 1,000 illegitimate births 22.90
Neo-natal mortality rate per 1,000 live births (first four weeks) 12.28
Early Neo-natal mortality rate per 1,000 total live births (under one
week) 10.19
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under one week combined
per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) 25.73
Maternal deaths (including abortion) 2
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 0.51
Deaths (all causes) 2,845
Death rate per 1,000 population — Crude rate 11.47
Adjusted rate 10.89
Comparability Factors — Birth rate 1.03
Death rate 0.95
Total rainfall 1965 25.41 inches