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Of the total live births 505 were males and 500 females.
Thirteen males and 14 females were illegitimate.
Stillbirths numbered 30, 18 being males and 12 females.
One male stillbirth was illegitimate.
Ward Distribution. District Medical Officers of Health
have no information as to the home addresses of the registered
births which occurred to residents outside the district and
hence for comparative purposes as between wards, use is made
of the births which occurred during the year. This information
is taken from the notifications of birth and from the returns
of the births registered locally. These records show
that 941 live births and 24 stillbirths took place during the
year as compared with a total of 1,005 live and 30 stillbirths
registered during the same period. The distribution is given
in the table below. The birth-rates shown in this table are
slightly lower than if based upon the registered births inasmuch
as the total on which they are computed is 64 less than
the registered births.

A high rate was again recorded in the Morden Ward and
as in the previous year was due to the development which has
taken place in that ward.
Institutional and Domiciliary Births. The tendency of
recent years towards increased Institutional confinements continued.
Fifty-seven per cent, of the births which occurred
during the year took place in hospitals or nursing homes as
follows:—
Nelson Hospital 230
Kingston County Hospital 80
Other hospitals, institutions, and nursing
homes 248
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