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10
POPULATION
The Registrar General's estimate of the mid-year population
for 1963 is 97,980, a decrease of 260 from the estimate for the
previous year. The natural increase in the population, i.e.
the excess of births over deaths was 754 and the population
estimate therefore supposes that more than 1,000 persons left
Hampstead and were not replaced.
Hampstead has a somewhat larger floating population than
many other areas and 20,000 to 25,000 persons leave the Borough
and are replaced by others every year.
BIRTHS
The number of live births was 1,748, a decrease of 27 from
the figure for 1962. Of the total 914 were boys and 834 were
girls - a comparative rate of nearly 110 boys for every 100
girls. This is a somewhat greater difference than is usually
found.
The birth rate is 17.8 per 1,000 of the population but
there has been for many years a much greater proportion of women
in Hampstead as compared with the country as a whole and the
Registrar General's comparability factor of 0.64 gives an
adjusted birth rate of 11.4
Of the births 250 were illegitimate. The percentages of
illegitimate births during the past 10 years are given below and
it will be seen that there has been a slight decrease in the
proportion as compared with 1962. Similar decreases have
occurred before and it would be unwise to take an optimistic
view of the trend particularly as the rate, in spite of the
present decrease, is nearly 60 per cent above the rate for ten
years ago.
Year
The number of stillbirths decreased by one to 23, but the
stillbirth rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths remains the same
at 13.
Per Cent.
Year
Per Cent.
1954 9.1 1959 10.7
1955 8.9 1960 11.5
1956 10.0 1961 13.3
1957 9.4 1962 15.0
1958 11.0 1963 14.3