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Births.
The total number of live births registered during the year was
3,083 (1,588 male and 1,495 female). Of these, 100 were illegitimate,
being a percentage of total births of 3.2. The number of live births
registered in each of the years from 1944 onwards was 3,473, 3,068,
3,934, 3,828, 3226 and 3,083.
1,283 births occurred in the district (1,269 live and 14 still births).
Of this number, 370 were to residents of other districts. 1,750 (1,711
live and 39 still) birth notifications were transferred from other districts,
being mostly of births occurring to Harrow mothers in Edgware General
Hospital, Bushey Maternity Hospital or in London Hospitals.
The birth rate for each of the years from 1944 was 18.7, 16.0, 18.0,
17.7, 14.7, and 13.9 in 1949.
66 (39 male and 27 female) stillbirths were registered, being a rate
per 1,000 population of 0.30 compared with a figure of 0.39 for the
country as a whole.
Deaths.
Of the 1,890 deaths which occurred in the district, 108 were of persons
who were not residents of this area. Twenty-six of these took place
in the various hospitals, 35 in nursing homes and 3 in Oxhey Grove,
a home for the elderly.
Of the 697 deaths of local residents which occurred outside the
district, most took place in institutions, 230 being in the Edgware General
Hospital, and 78 at other hospitals in the county. Three deaths occurred
in institutions for the treatment of the tuberculous, and one, a new-born
infant, at a maternity institution. 132 deaths took place in hospitals
just outside the district, including 8 deaths in near-by isolation hospitals,
and 127 in the various London hospitals.