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Births.—The statistics supplied by the Registrar-General
show that during 1933 the total number of registered live
births belonging to Wimbledon amounted to six hundred and
two (three hundred and sixteen males and two hundred and
eighty-six females). This gives a birth rate equal to 10.24
per thousand of the population. Thirty (or 4.98 per cent.)
of the births were illegitimate. Of this number, fifteen were
males and fifteen females. In addition, seventeen stillbirths
(ten males and seven females) were registered.
The following table gives the birth rates in Wimbledon
for the past ten years, together with the comparative figures
for England and Wales. In 1923, the birth rate in Wimbledon
was 14.9. Since that year the figure has been steadily
falling.