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In each of the post-war years the population of the district increased
to reach the highest figure of 220,300 in 1950. From that time there was
a slight fall each year in the estimated population. The mid-year figure
for 1961 is the lowest estimated figure of population since the war. The
natural increase in population, which is the excess of births over deaths,
last year was 803.
Births.
The total number of live births registered during the year was 3,085
(1,514 male and 1,571 female). Of these 136 were illegitimate, being a
percentage of total births of 4.4. The numbers of live births registered
in the five years from 1956 onwards were: 2,791, 2,783, 2,830, 2,931 and
3,117.
944 births occurred in the district (938 live, 6 stillbirths). Of this
number 35 were to residents of other districts. 2,261 (2,215 live and 46
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 14.7. The local comparability factor for births is
1.04. The corrected birth rate was therefore 15.3. That for the country
as a whole was 17.4, the highest rate since 1948.
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 in 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.
1,268 persons died in this district in 1961. This figure includes the
members of the armed forces stationed here. Of these, 155 were of persons
who were not resident in this area. 206 deaths took place in the various
local hospitals, eighty-seven in Roxbourne, twenty-six in Oxhey Grove
and sixty-two persons died in non-transferable institutions.
Of the 1,032 deaths of the local residents which occurred outside the
district, most took place in institutions, 374 being at the Edgware General
Hospital. 272 deaths took place in hospitals just outside the district,
including seventeen in nearby isolation hospitals, and 272 in various
London hospitals. Thirty-five deaths were of infants born in hospitals
outside the district.