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NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Estimated population (1929)
178,500
Population (Census, 1921)
184,404
Area (acres)
1,131
Number of inhabited houses (1921)
19,050
Number of families or separate occupiers (1921)
46,727
Rateable value
£1,238,489
Sum represented by penny rate
£4,764
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
The district is chiefly a residential working class one, with a number
of factories, business premises, warehouses and wharves.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Births—Legitimate
3,100
Illegitimate
136
Total
3,236
Birth Rate,
18.1.
Stillbirths.
Males.
Females.
Legitimate
55
40
Illegitimate
6
2
61
42
Total
103
Deaths
2,785
Death Rate,
15.6.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of childbirth —
From sepsis
5
Other causes .
2
Deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 births
81
Legitimate
213
Illegitimate
20
Total
263
Deaths from Measles (all ages)
16
Do. Whooping Cough (all ages)
49
Do. Diarrhæa under 2 years of age
36