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Vital Statistics. 3
(3.) Average No. of persons in receipt of
outdoor relief 2,886
(4.) Amount of outdoor relief given .. £49,662
Extracts from Vital Statistics.
Births:—
Males 2,373 Legitimate 4,420
Females 2,243 Illegitimate 196
Total Births 4,616 Birth-rate 13-00
Deaths:—
Total Deaths 3,757 Death-rate 10-58
No. of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth :—
From sepsis 6
From other causes 15
Deaths of Infants under one year of age:—
Legitimate 211
Illegitimate 19
Total 230
Infantile mortality 49
Deaths from Tuberculosis:—
No 294 Rate .82
Total deaths from Measles 36
Total deaths from Whooping Cough 9
Total deaths from Diarrhoea (under two years of age) 34
Population.
The population at the middle of the year was estimated to
be 354,948, and all the rates used in this Report are calculated
on this figure. The corresponding figure for the year 1927 was
354,178.
Table I. shows the population of each sub-district, based on
the above estimation, compared with the Census population.
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