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GENERAL STATISTICS
Year - 1958
Area in acres 7,261
Population (Registrar-General's estimate) 105,100
Number of habitable premises (rate books) 30,805
Number of houses erected during year 272
Rateable Value of Borough £2,007,451
Sum represented by a penny rate £8,240
Live Births - male 632
Live Births - female 632
Birth rate per 1,000 population 12.0
Birth rate per 1,000 population (England and Wales) 16,4
Stillbirths - male 9
Stillbirths - female 8
Stillbirths rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 13.3
Deaths - male 545
Deaths - female 571
Death rate per 1,000 population 10.6
Death rate per 1,000 population (England and Wales) 11.7
infant Mortality rate 16.6
Infant Mortality rate (England and Wales) 22.5
Maternal Mortality rate 0.0
Maternal Mortality rate (England and Wales) 0.4
VITAL STATISTICS
POPULATION The Registrar-General's mid year estimate of the population of the
Borough for the year 1958 is 105,100
RATEABLE VALUE. The rateable value of the Borough for 1958 was £2,007,451 and
the sum represented by a penny rate was £8,240
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 30,805, in relation
to the estimated population, this yields an average of approximately 3.5
persons per house.
LIVE BIRTHS The number of live births in 1958 was 1,264 as compared with 1,305
in 1957 The birth rate was 12.0 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 12.0 as compared with the birth
rate of 16.4 per 1,000 population for England and Wales,
The number of illegitimate births was 45 as compared with 47 in 1957- 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 1950-54 4.0
1930-34 3.2 1955 4.2
1935-39 2.9 1956 3.3
1940-44 4.6 1957 3.6
1945-49 5.1 1958 3.6
Of the total live and still births, 75.7 occurred in hospital.