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Population.
The Registrar General's Estimate of the mid-year population
for 1943 is 65,880. The practice of providing separate
population figures for calculation of birth rates and death rates,
and incidence of infectious disease has been discontinued.
Similarly the attempt to secure comparability between local
death rates by the use of areal comparability factors has been
abandoned. Two special population estimates have been made
by the Registrar General for 1943 to assist in obtaining
uniformity in the Diphtheria immunisation figures. These are
the under five population and the five to fifteen population.
The figure for the age group 0—4 inclusive is 4,939, and
for the age group 5—14 inclusive 9,855.

BIRTHS.
The registered live births totalled 1,146, an increase of
77 over the previous year; and the birth rate has shown a
corresponding rise from 16.05 to 17.4 per 1,000 of the
population.
Of the total live births 588 were males and 558 females.
There were 57 illegitimate births, the highest figure ever
recorded for the district; of these 25 were males and 32 females.
There were 26 stillbirths; seventeen males and nine females.
Institutional and Domiciliary Births.
The appended table shows a further increase in institutional
births, and a decrease in domiciliary births.
This trend of recent years has been accelerated by the
difficulties of providing help in the home, and absence of
husbands, and absence, in consequence, of any company in the
house—a factor which no home help scheme can entirely cover.
It will be seen that 325 mothers from our district had
their babies in St. Helier Hospital. It would seem that the
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