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It is now estimated that children under 5 years of age represent
7% and children 5—15 years 17.5% of the total population. The
distribution by wards at mid-year was estimated as follows :—

BIRTHS.
For the first time the number of live births registered in the year
exceeded 1,000. A total of 1,072 was divided as to 555 males and 517
females. This gives a birth rate of 17.8 per 1,000 population, the
highest for eighteen years, and compares with 15.0 in the year before.
Still-births numbered 23, giving a rate of 20.9 per 1,000 total births.
Information available from the registration of births is not complete
as to the home addresses of the parents. For computation of
ward birth rates, therefore, use is made of the notifications of birth
received under the Public Health Act, supplemented by the Registrar's
weekly returns of registrations. From these sources it is known that
1,102 live births occurred in 1946.