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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Area (in acres) 1,132
Population (estimated, 1935) 164,700
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1933) according to rate
books 27,442
Rateable value £1,330,645
Sum represented by penny rate £5,226
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
The population is chiefly a working-class one, and a large proportion
are employed in the printing and manufacturing trades, whilst others
are engaged as waterside labourers or casual workers. None of these
occupations have any definite effect on the health of the people.
The unemployment figures, according to the Board of Trade Gazette,
show a slow but steady decrease, the latest figures being 6,965 males,
1,940 females and 265 juvenilas, a total of 9,170, as against 10,578 last
year.
No case of actual malnutrition has come to my notice, but there ia
no doubt a number of families have been hard hit during these lean
months of unemployment.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Total.
M.
F.
Live Births—Legitimate
2,220
1,128
1,092
Birth Rate, 14.2
Live Births—Illegitimate
111
63
48
Still Births, 85.
Rate per 1,000 total births, 36
Deaths, 2,298.
Death rate, 13 9
Percentage of total deaths occurring in public institutions, 70.3.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of childbirth:—
From sepsis 3
Other causes 3
Death rate of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births:—
Legitimate 58
Illegitimate 162
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 6
Do. Whooping Cough (all ages) 23
Do. Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 32
No excessive or unusual mortality has occurred during the year.