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VITAL STATISTICS,
POPULATION
The Registrar-General's mid-year estimate of the civilian population,
58,070, shews a decrease of 80 on the previous year, although
the natural increase by excess of births over deaths was 179.
All rates used in this report are based on the Registrar-General's
figures.
BIRTHS.
The statistics supplied by the Registrar-General show that during
the year 1955, the total number of registered live births belonging to
Wimbledon was 781. Of this number, 405 were males and 376 females.
This gives a birth-rate of 13.45 per thousand of the population as compared
with a rate of 13.48 per thousand in 1954, and an average of
13.28 in the last five years.
A comparability factor has been supplied by the Registrar-General
which enables the birth-rate for Wimbledon to be compared with that
for England and Wales. The corrected birth-rate for Wimbledon for
1955 is 12.91 per thousand of the population, whilst the rate for England
and Wales is 15.0 and has averaged 15.3 over the past five years.
Stillbirths - The number of stillbirths registered during the year
was 8 (6 males and 2 females), this being 10 fewer than last year. The
stillbirth rate for Wimbledon was 0.14 per thousand of the population,
while that for England and Wales was 0.35.
Illegitimacy - Of the live births registered in 1955, 34 (20 males
and 14 females) were illegitimate, this being one less than in the preceding
year. One of the 8 stillbirths registered was illegitimate.
DEATHS.
The total number of Wimbledon residents who died during 1955
was 602 (286 males and 316 females), giving a death-rate of 10.37 per
thousand of the population as compared with 10.64 per thousand for
1954. The corrected death-rate for 1955 is 8.29 per thousand as compared
with a rate of 11.7 per thousand for England and Wales.
The number of Wimbledon residents who died outside the Borough
was 231, whilst 310 persons not normally resident in Wimbledon died
in institutions, etc., in the Borough.