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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. Totaf Birth-rate.
Live Legitimate 784 685 1,469 1,520 14.8
Births Illegitimate 31 20 51
Still-births, 56. Rate per 1,000 total births, 35.5.
Death-rate.
Deaths 1,247 12.1
Percentage of total deaths occurring in Institutions 60
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth:
Rate per 1,000
(live and still)
births.
From Puerperal Sepsis 6 3.8
Other Puerperal causes 3 1.9
Total 9 5.7
Death-rate of infants under one year of age, per 1,000 births:
Legitimate 52
Illegitimate 118
Total 54
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 1
,, Whooping Cough (all ages) 9
„ Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 15
Population.
1 he population for 1933, as given by the Registrar-General, was
102,800, the lowest on record.