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GENERAL STATISTICS
Year 1956
Area in acres 7,218
Population (Registrar-General s estimate) 105,100
Number of habitable premises (rate books) 30,011
Number of houses erected during year 273
Rateable Value of Borough £2,032,341
Sum represented by a penny rate £8,420
Live Births - male 637
Live Births - female 598
Birth rate per 1,000 population 11.8
Birth rate per 1,000 population (England and Wales) 15.7
Stillbirths - male 13
Stillbirths - female 11
Stillbirths rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 19.1
Deaths - male 640
Deaths - female 495
Death rate per 1,000 population 10.8
Death rate per 1,000 population (England and Wales) 11.7
Infant Mortality rate 17.8
infant Mortality rate (England and Wales) 23.8
Maternal Mortality rate 0 0
Maternal Mortality rate (England and Wales) 0.6
VITAL STATISTICS
POPULATION The Registrar General s mid-year estimate of the population of
the Borough for the year 1956 is 105,100
RATEABLE VALUE The rateable value of the Borough for 1956 was £2.032,341 and
the sum represented by a penny rate was £8.420
INHABITED HOUSES According to the rate books, the number of habitable houses,
flats and shops with living accommodation at the end of the year was 30,011 In
relation to the estimated population, this yields and average of approximately 4
persons per house,
LIVE BIRTHS The number of live births in 1956 was 1,235 as compared with
1 164 in 1955 The birth rate was 11,1 per 1 000 population. The birth rate will
vary, apart from other causes according to the age and sex distribution of the population,
and to permit of a true comparison with other areas, the Registrar General
supplies for each local sanitary authority what is called the area comparability
factor. When this is applied to the Borough birth rate, the result is ll„0 as compared
with the birth rate of 15 7 per 1 000 population for England and Wales.
The number of illegitimate births was 41. as compared with 49 in 1955 The
proportion of live births which were illegitimate, expressed as a percentage of the
total live births, is shown below for recent years:-
1925-29 3.9 194549 5.1
1930-34 3.2 1950-54 4.0
1935-39 2.9 1955 4.2
1940-44 4.6 1956 3.3
The majority of births continue to occur in hospital.
STILLBIRTHS The number of stillbirths in 1956 was 24 (21 legitimate, 3 illegitimate)
The proportion of stillbirths perl 000 total (live and still) births in
recent years is shown below:-
No of Rate per 1,000
Stillbirths total births
1930-34 214 31.2
1935-39 224 29.4
1940-44 200 27.7
1945-49 198 23.8
1950-54 129 20.6
1955 20 16.9
1956 24 19.1
This loss of potential lives remains a problem and until more is known of the
causes little further improvement can be expected.
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