View report page

12
was a slight fall each year in the estimated population. This is the first
post war year showing a rise, the mid-year 1960 figure of 214,370 being
670 greater than that of the previous year. The natural increase
in population, which is the excess of births over deaths, last year was
1,091.
Births
The total number of live births registered during the year was 3,117
(1,593 male and 1,524 female). Of these 155 were illegitimate, being a
percentage of total births of 4.9. The numbers of live births registered
in the six years from 1955 onwards were: 2,747, 2,755, 2,791, 2,783, 2,830
and 2,931.
928 births occurred in the district (922 live, six stillbirths). Of this
number thirty-two were to residents of other districts. 2,276 (2,240 live
and thirty-six still) birth notifications were transferred from other districts,
being mostly of births occurring to Harrow mothers in hospitals in
Middlesex or in London.
The birth rate was 14.5. The local comparability factor for births
is 1.03. The corrected birth rate was therefore 14.9. That for the country
as a whole was 171, the highest rate since 1949.
Deaths
The Registrar-General arranges that the information about those
who have died outside the district in which they normally reside is transferred
to the Health Offices of those districts. These numbers are added
to the deaths of those districts, corresponding deductions being made of
the deaths allocated to any district in respect of those who died in those
districts, but who normally resided elsewhere.
While certain types of institutions are not regarded in ordinary
circumstances as the usual residence of those living there, there are many
institutions which are so regarded.
1,208 persons died in this district in 1960. This figure includes the
members of the armed forces stationed here. Of these, 155 were of persons
who were not resident in the area. 167 deaths took place in the various
local hospitals, eighty-one in Roxbourne, fifteen in Oxhey Grove and
thirty-five persons died in non-transferable institutions.
Of the 978 deaths of the local residents which occurred outside the
district, most took place in institutions, 383 being at the Edgware General
Hospital. 268 deaths took place in hospitals just outside the district,
including seventeen in nearby isolation hospitals, and 226 in various
London hospitals. Nine deaths were of infants born in hospitals outside
the district.
The total number of deaths was 2,026. The figure for 1959 was 2,078,
for 1958, 1,992 and for 1957 was 1,937. The 2,094 of 1951 was the largest
number of deaths recorded for this district.