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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
(Land and Inland Water)
Area (in Acres) (Tidal Water) 13,983
Registrar-General's Estimate of resident Population:—
June 30th 1966 246,600
Number of inhabited houses (April 1st, 1966) according to Rate Books 76,953
Rateable Value — April 1st, 1966 £12,561,417
Sum represented by a penny rate, April 1st, 1966 £52,000
1966-67
General Rate 11s,3d.
in the £
The following figures as to unemployment were supplied by the Ministry of
Labour:—
Males Females
As at December, 1966 1,013 101
1966
Live Births 3,891
Live Birth rate per 1,000 population — Crude rate 15.78
Adjusted rate 16.25
Illegitimate Live Births per cent of total live births 6.43
Stillbirths 52
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 13.19
Total Live and Stillbirths 3,943
Infant deaths (under 1 year) 56
Total Infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 11.57
Legitimate Infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate births 13.18
Illegitimate Infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate births 32.00
Neo-natal mortality rate per 1,000 live births (first four weeks) 10.28
Early Neo-natal mortality rate per 1,000 total live births (under one
week) 9.00
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under one week combined
per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) 22.06
Maternal deaths (including abortion) Nil
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 0.00
Deaths (all causes) 2,811
Death rate per l,000 population — Crude Rate 11.40
Adjusted rate 10.60
Comparability Factors - Birth rate 1.03
Death rate 0.93
Total rainfall 1966 26.36 inches
Greatest rainfaull in any 24 hours (on22.6.66) 1.38 inches