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City of Westminster 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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Illegitimate.

Males75-67+50=58
Females81-62+52=71
156-129+102=129

The legitimate births show a decrease of 50 and the illegitimate a
decrease of 3 on the figures of 1932.
As shown in Table I, 1,015 notifications of births were received by
the Department for 1933 as compared with 1,591 in 1932. Of the total
of notifications, 580 were sent by midwives, of whom 30 were practising
in the City during 1933.
The following Table shows the number of male and female children
born since 1917, and those who did not survive the first year of life, with
the number of the surviving children at the end of the first year of life

Table III.

Number Born.Number of Deaths under 1 yearNumber remaining at end of year.
Boys.Girls.Boys.Girls.Boys.Girls.
19177567889464662724
19187896708464705006
19197868147463712751
19201,1171,149104631,0131,086
19219919289163900865
19229459576836877921
19239148444438870806
19248477805838789742
19257837525749726703
19267978094848749761
19277126875244660643
19287226484733675615
19296886695748631621
19306966724833648639
19315856265041535585
19326055474135564512
19335255744926470548

For each 1,000 girls born, there were in—

1916965 boys.19251,041 boys.
1917914 boys.1926985 boys.
19181,177 boys.19271,036 boys.
1919965 boys.19281,114 boys.
1920972 boys.19291,028 boys.
19211,067 boys.19301,035 boys.
1922987 boys.1931934 boys.
19231,082 boys.19321,106 boys.
19241,086 boys.1933914 boys

(9489)
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