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The relationship between figures in this Table and figures
connected with the Health Service is interesting. At the time of
the Census there were 7,993 children under 5 years of age in the
Borough, and at the same date the number of children under 5
years of age on the Registers at the Health Centres was 3,673,
or 46 per cent. of the total at that age. The total number of
children five years and over, but under fifteen (which is roughly
equivalent to the elementary school age) was 16,240, while the
average number of children on the elementary school registers
during 1931 was 11,769, indicating that approximately 72 per cent,
of the child population was in attendance at the public elementary
schools.
Birth-Rate. The number of births assigned to the Borough
is 1,768, compared with 1,766 in 1931. The birth-rate of 14.4
per thousand of population is 0.6 less than in the previous year.
The birth-rate for Ealing is a little higher than that for London,
which is 14.2, but is less than the rates for England and Wales
and the 118 Great Towns which are 15.3 and 15.4 respectively.
In Table II it is seen that during the last nine years the birth-rate
for the Borough has remained fairly constant, only fluctuating
to a very small degree, varying between 14.0 and 15.0. This is
in marked contrast to the birth-rate for the whole country which in
the same period has gradually fallen from 18.8 to 15.3. The constancy
of rate in Ealing may be due to the number of new families
coming year by year into the rapidly developing Greenford Ward.