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BIRTHS - BIRTH RATE.
The nett total births accredited to the district
was 780, an increase of 7 on the preceding year. Of
these, 399 were males and 381 females (6 males and 13
females were illegitimate), although, as previously
indicated, the Registrar General gives a total of 771
births for the calculation of the Infant Mortality and
certain other rates.
The birth-rate was therefore 11.24 per 1,000 of
the population, as against 11.39 in 1938.
The birth-rate for England and Wales for 1939 was
15.0, and for the administrative County of London, 12.3
The total number of 'births actually registered in
the district during the year amounted to 718, of which
10 were unnotified. The percentage of births notified
was therefore 98.6 as compared with 98.25% in 1938.
One hundred and eighty seven births were notified by
midwives.
MORTALITY.
GENERAL MORTALITY AND DEATH RATE.- The nett number of
deaths accredited to this district was 693, an increase
of 46 as compared with the previous year.
This gives a corrected death-rate of 10.16 per
1,000 of the population, an increase of 0.82 on the
rate for the previous year, which was 9.34.
The rate for England and Wales (1939) was 12.1,
and for London 11.9.
INFANT MORTALITY.- There were 21 (2 illegitimate)
deaths of infants under 1 year of age, which gives an
infantile death-rate of 26.92 per 1,000 births
registered, as compared with 24 deaths and a rate of
31.09 in the preceding year.
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