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BIRTHS.
The live births registered totalled 874. Of these 451 were
males and 423 females. The total is 25 less than in the year
before, and so the birth rate falls to 13.3 compared with 15.7 per
thousand population for 1936. This rate of 13.3 is the lowest
recorded for the district, the previous lowest being 14.9 in 1933.
The number of illegitimate births included in the total was 23,
16 male and 7 female, 4 more than in the year before.
Still-births numbered 21, of which 15 were males and 6 females.
One female still-birth was illegitimate.
Ward Birth Rates. Information in respect of registered
births is not sufficient to permit of a classification by wards and
so use is made for this purpose of the notifications of births received
under Part VII of the Public Health Act, 1936, supplemented by
reference to the returns of births registered in the district.

The same marked difference in the birth rates for the northern
and southern halves of the district is exhibited again as in the two
preceding years.
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