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BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATES.
The number of births registered within the District during the
year was 2,131—males, 1,076; females, 1,055.
The total births as given by the Registrar General were 2,351,
showing that 220 were born and registered without the area.
Of the total births, 56 were illegitimate as compared with 43 in
1924 and 70 in 1914. In other words 2.2 per cent. of the children
born in 1914 were illegitimate compared with 2.3 per cent. in 1925,
a proportion not differing materially from that in pre-war days.
The birth-rate for the year was 17.9 per 1,000 of the population
as estimated by the Registrar General.
This rate is an improvement on the previous year, but less by .4
than that of the Country as a whole and by .9 than that of the 105
County Boroughs and Great. Towns. The 157 Smaller Towns
had only .4 greater rate than Walthamstow and London a rate
of .1 only.
The following Table (page 28) shows the births distributed in
Wards, with birth-rates for 1924 and 1925, on populations estimated
by the Registrar General:—