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7.
POPULATION
The Registrar General's estimate of the mid-year
population for 1964 is 101,060, the highest figure ever
given for Hampstead. The Mid-1964 estimate is based on the
final results of the Census enumeration of the 23rd April,
1961 corrected for area of usual residence.
Part of the increase in population is due to the excess
of births over deaths, i.e. 897, but most must be accounted
for by the amount of housing conversion that has taken place.
Large single houses have been divided into flats and in some
instances houses have been demolished and replaced by blocks
of flats and housing estates.
BIRTHS
The birth rate of 18.0 per 1,000 population is a high
one, but when the comparability factor of 0.64 is taken into
account the adjusted birth rate which is used for comparison
with other districts becomes 11.5.
The number of illegitimate births, 284, showed an
increase of 34 compared with the previous year and the percentage
of illegitimate births increased from 14.3 in 1963 to 15.6 in
1964.
The increase is possibly partly due to the number of
unmarried mothers who come to London to have their babies,
either because of the better facilities offered or because
they wish to minimise the risk of publicity among their own
friends and family.
The number of still-births declined from 23 in 1963 to
17 in 1964# with a corresponding welcome fall from 13 to 9.3
in the rate of still-births per 1000 total births.
INFANT MORTALITY.
Twenty-nine children died under the age of 1 year, 20 of
these died within the first week. The infant mortality rate
was 15.9 compared with 17.2 in the previous year.