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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Area (in acres) 1,132
Population (estimated, 1936) 152,200
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1936) according to rate
books 28,198
Rateable value £1,302,199
Sum represented by penny rate £5,189
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.
The unemployment figures, according to the Board of Trade Gazette,
show a slow but steady decrease, the latest figures being 4,320 males,
1,545 females and 81 juveniles, a total of 5,928 as against 7,624 last
year.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Total.
M.
F.
Live Births—Legitimate
2,151
1,110
1,041
Birth Rate, 14.8
Live Births—Illegitimate
104
49
55
Still Births, 63. (Registered).
Rate per 1,000 total births, 35.8
Deaths 1,993.
Death rate, 13.1
Deaths from Puerperal Causes:—
Rate per 1,000
Deaths.
(Live and
Still Births).
From Puerperal fever
1
0.43
From other Puerperal causes
3
1.29
Death rate of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births:—
Legitimate
59
Illegitimate
67
Deaths from Measles (all ages)
23
Do. Whooping Cough (all ages)
16
Do. Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age;
19