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The Birth Rate for the year, calculated on the figure of 1,351
births, is 15.16 per thousand of the population, 1.56 lower than that
for 1950. The average rate for the previous ten years is 19.19.
The Greenwich Comparability Factor for births is 0.93 which gives
an adjusted rate of 14.10.
The Rates for the County of London and for England and Wales
are 17.8 and 15.5 respectively, the former shows no change from the
previous year but the latter indicates a decrease of 0.3 from the
figure for 1950.
Illegitimate Births numbered 62, representing 4.5 per cent. of
the total live births and showing an advance of one over those of
the previous year.
The number of Still Births registered was 35 (17 males - 18
females), which is equivalent to a rate of 25.25 per 1,000 total births,
an increase of 6.85 over that of the previous year.
DEATHS
The net number of deaths registered during 1951 was 1,002, of
which 520 were males and 482 females, compared with last year's
total of 928 comprising 486 males and 442 females.
This gives a crude Death Rate for the Borough of 11.24 per
thousand of the population, an increase of 0.85 as compared with