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Swimming pools with chlorination plants to ensure cleanliness of
the water, slipper baths and washhouses are maintained by the Borough
Council and are largely used.
The chief industries are those associated with the metal trade, stone
and slate works, paper works, tarpaulin making, spinning and sackmaking.
Figures dealing with the number of births and deaths and the
mortality from certain specified diseases serve as a rough index of the
health of a community, and the following extracts from the vital
statistics is of interest in this connection :
Male. Female. Total. Birth-rate.
Live ( Legitimate 809 804 1,613 )
Births j Illegitimate 29 27 56
Still-births, 48. Rate per 1,000 total births, 28.0.
Death-rate.
Deaths 1,290 12.2
Percentage of total deaths occurring in Institutions 57
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth:
Rate per
1,000 births.
From Puerperal Sepsis 2 1.2
Other Puerperal causes 3 1.7
Total 5 2.9
Death-rate of infants under one year of age, per 1,000 births :
Legitimate 60.9
Illegitimate 178.6
Total 65.0
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 23
„ Whooping Cough (all ages) 9
„ Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 23
Population.
1 he population for 1932, as given by the Registrar-General, was
105,100, the lowest on record.