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GENERAL STATISTICS,
AREA (acres) 1,706, Population (Census 1951 150,928
Population, mid-1940 (Registrar-General's estimate 106,650
Number of inhabited houses (Census 1931 26,245
Rateable Value, March, 1941 £l,269,109
Sum represented by a penny rate £4,645
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR.
LIVE BIRTHS:- Total. Males. Females,
Birth rate per
Legitimate 1,579 794 785 1,000 of the
Illegitimate 97 55 44 mated polation 15.7
Rate for London 15.7
TOTALS 1,676 847 829 „ „ England
and Wales. 14.6
STILLBIRTHS:-
Rate per 1,000 total
Legitimate ill)
Illegitimate 5 2 1 births 26.1.
TOTALS 45 27 18
Death late per 1,000
DEATHS 1,994 1,011 983 of the estimated
population:
Crude rate 18.7
Adjusted rate 18.1
Rate for Londonl7-5
„ „ England
and Wales 14. 5
Percentage of deaths occurring in public institutions 49.19
Deaths from puerperal causes:
Rate per 1.000 (live
Deaths. and still)births.
From sepsis 2 1.26
From other causes 1 O.65
Death rate of Infants under One Year of Ages-
All infants per 1,000 live births 45
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate births 47
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate births 22
Deaths from2-
Cancer (all ages)248
Meales(all ages)-
Whooping Cough (all ages) 2
Diarrhoea (under two years of age) 5 5
CAUSES OF DEATH.
These are classified in Table I at the end of this Report,
which shows that the five commonest causes were; Heart Disease,
407 (20.41 per cent. of the total deaths), Respiratory Diseases,
316 (15.85%) Cancer 248 (12.44%), Intra Cranial lesions, 135
(6.77%) and Tuberculosis (all forms) 105 (5.26%
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