[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley] page 12

Bexley 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]

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EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS.

	1939		1940		1941		1942		1943		1944		1945
Births.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.
Total	747	676	632	647	601	544	727	742	707	677	786	712	728	685
Legitimate	730	660	620	636	585	529	706	726	674	659	750	685	695	650
Illegitimate	17	16	12	11	16	15	21	16	33	18	36	27	33	35
Total	1,423		1,279		1,145		1,469		1,384		1,498		1,413
Legitimate	1,390		1,256		1,114		1,432		1,333		1,435		1,345
Illegitimate	33		23		31		37		51		63		68
Birth Rate per 1,000 of Estimated resident population	17.76		16.46		15.88		19.07		18.03		21.06		18.81
Rate per 1,000 for— England and Wales	15.0		14.6		14.2		15.8		16.5		17.6		16.1
County Boroughs and Great Towns including London	14.8		16.0		14.7		17.3		18.6		20.3		19.1
Smaller Towns (estimated populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census 1931)	15.6		15.7		16.4		18.4		19.4		20.9		19.2
London Administrative County	12.3		13.7		8.9		14.0		15.8		15.0		15.7
Stillbirths.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.
Stillbirths.
	18	23	20	12	21	14	28	10	17	12	15	15	12	19
Total	41		32		35		38		29		30		31
Rate per 1,000— Total Live and Stillbirths	28.0		24.4		29.6		25.2		20.5		19.0		21.4
Population	0.51		0.41		0.48		0.49		0.37		0.42		0.41
For England and Wales	0.59		0.55		0.51		0.54		0.51		0.50		0.46
For County Boroughs and Great Towns including London	0.59		0.64		0.58		0.66		0.63		0.64		0.58
For Smaller Towns (estimated populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census 1931)	0.57		0.55		0.60		0.62		0.61		0.61		0.53
For london Administrative county	0.44		0.44		0.33		0.48		0.45		0.42		0.40
Number of stillbirth registered as illegitimate	1		–		2		2		1		–		4
	1939		1940		1941		1942		1943		1944		1945