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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 are of interest in this connection :
Male.
Female.
Total.
Grand
Total.
Birth-rate.
Live
Legitimate
764
737
1,501
1,548
15.7
Births
Illegitimate
22
25
47
Still-births, 56. Rate per 1,000 total births, 34.9.
Death-rate.
Deaths 1,202 12.2
Percentage of total deaths occurring in Institutions 64
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth :
Rate per 1,000
(live and still)
births.
From Puerperal Sepsis —
Other Puerperal causes 1 0.6
Total 1 0.6
Death-rate of infants under one year of age, per 1,000 live births :
Legitimate 48
Illegitimate 106
Total 50
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 9
,, Whooping Cough (all ages) 7
„ Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 18
Population.
The population for 1936, as given by the Registrar-General, was
98,900, the lowest on record.