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Vital Statistics.
(3.) Average No. of persons in receipt of
outdoor relief 2,499
(4.) Amount of outdoor relief given £43,352
Extracts from Vital Statistics.
Births :—
Males .. 2,374 Legitimate 4,401
Females.. 2,258 Illegitimate 231
Total Births 4,632 Birth-rate 13.01
Deaths:—
Total Deaths 4,575 Death-rate 12.85
No. of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth:—
From sepsis 15
From other causes 8
Deaths of Infants under one year of age:—
Legitimate 258
Illegitimate 26
Total 284
Infantile mortality 61
Deaths from Tuberculosis:—
No. 353 Rate 99
Total deaths from Measles 1
Total deaths from Whooping Cough 62
Total deaths from Diarrhoea (under two years of age) 29
Population.
The population at the middle of the year was estimated to
by 355,807, and all the rates used in this Report are calculated
on this figure. The corresponding figure for the year 1928 was
354,948.
Table I. shows the population of each sub-district, based on
the above estimation, compared with the Census population.
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