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VITAL STATISTICS.
POPULATION.
The Registrar-General's mid-year estimate of the civilian population,
57,450 shews an estimated decrease of 70 on the previous year,
although the natural increase by excess of births over deaths was 94.
All rates used in this report are based on the Registrar-General's
figures.
BIRTHS.
The statistics supplied by the Registrar-General show that during
the year 1959, the total number of registered live births belonging to
Wimbledon was 846. Of this number, 437 were males and 409 females.
This gives a birth-rate of 14.72 per thousand of the population as compared
with a rate of 13.80 per thousand in 1958, and an average of
13.92 in the last five years.
A comparability factor has been supplied by the Registrar-General
which enables the birth-rate for Wimbledon to be compared with that
for England and Wales. The corrected birth-rate for Wimbledon for
1959 was 14.13 per thousand of the population, whilst the rate for
England and Wales was 16.5 and has averaged 15-9 over the past
five years.
Stillbirths - The number of stillbirths registered during the year
was 15 (6 males and 9 females), this being 6 fewer than last year. The
stillbirth rate for Wimbledon was 0.26 per thousand of the population,
whilst that for England and Wales was 0.30.
Illegitimacy - Of the live births registered in 1959, 51 (29 males
and 22 females) were illegitimate, this being 10 more than in the
preceding year. One of the 15 stillbirths registered was illegitimate.
DEATHS.
The total number of Wimbledon residents who died during 1959
was 752 (317 males and 435 females), giving a death-rate of 13.09 per
thousand of the population as compared with 11.64 per thousand for
1958. The corrected death-rate for 1959 was 10.99 per thousand as
compared with a rate of 11.6 per thousand for England and Wales.
The number of Wimbledon residents who died outside the Borough
was 326, whilst 425 persons not normally resident in Wimbledon died
in institutions, etc., in the Borough.