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Death Rates of Infants under one year of age.
All Infants per 1,000 live births 23.3
Legitimate Infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 23.3
Illegitimate Infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births —
Population.
The rapid yearly increase of the population has been due to the
influx of tenants to the London County Council Housing Estate at
St. Paul's Cray, and it now rests with the Local Authority and
Voluntary Associations to mould these tenants into being recognised
residents of Chislehurst and Sidcup. This influx of young families has
made an increase in the proportion of child to adult population. The
social services must also be organised to cope with this factor.
The excess of births over deaths during 1950 was equivalent to 6.5
persons per 1,000 population, a factor which also affects the housing
programme.
Births.
The Birth Rate for 1950 is 15.0 per 1,000 population (15.8 for
1949).
The Registrar General's figures, after correction for inward and
outward transfers, give a total of 1,201 live births, of which 1,166 were
legitimate and 35 illegitimate. In addition to these live births, 25
pregnancies ended in stillbirths.
I have no record of the number of pregnancies that ended in
abortion, nor a true figure of the births that occur in Hospitals,
Nursing Homes, or at home, for, unfortunately, Local Authorities do
not now receive the notifications of births.
The fall in the Birth Rate is insignificant.
Illegitimate Births.
The illegitimate birth rate, for 1,000 live births, for 1950, was
29.1, compared with 40 in the previous year. This always shows a
yearly wide variation, but a rate of 29 per 1,000 live births is below
the average for the past seventeen years.
Stillbirths.
The stillbirth rate for the year was 20.4 per 1,000 (live and still)
births, and is slightly higher than that for 1949, which was 17.8.