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In last year's report it was shown that although the crude
birth rate of Acton is still higher than that of England and
Wales, yet based upon the number of women living at procreative
ages it is considerably lower. If the age-incidence of
the population has not altered since the Census, the birth-rate
per 1,000 females between the ages of 15 and 45 years was
much lower in Acton last year than in England and Wales.
Of the births registered 767 were males and 710 of females.
In 1909 the proportion of male births to 1,000 births of
females was the same as in England and Wales, viz, 1039.
Last year the proportion of males to 1,000 females was 1080.
In 1908 the female births exceeded the male births.
The highest number of births registered in one week was 42,
and the lowest 15,.
The births were distributed amongst the Wards as follows:—
North-East. North-West. South-East. South-West.
318 219 381 559
The rates per 1,000 inhabitants were as follows:—
North-East. North-West. South-East. South-West.
21.2 16.8 25.4 39.2
The birth-rates of the North-East and North-West Wards
were lower than in 1909, but in the South-East and South-West
Wards they were higher. The infants registered as having been
born out of wedlock number 36, which figure corresponds to a
rate of 24 per 1,000 births. This is higher than the illigetimate
rate of 1909, but lower than that of 1908 and also considerably
lower than that of England and Wales.
DEATHS.
Number 623
Death-rate per 1,000 10.9
Death-rate per 1,000 in England and Wales 13.4
Death-rate per 1,000 in 77 large towns 13.4
Death-rate per 1,000 in 136 smaller towns 12.4