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VITAL STATISTICS.
POPULATION
The Registrar-General's mid-year estimate of the civilian population,
57,630, shews an estimated decrease of 190 on the previous year,
although the natural increase by excess of births over deaths was 138.
All rates used in this report are based on the Registrar-General's
figures.
The statistics supplied by the Registrar-General show that during
the year 1957, the total number of registered live births belonging to
Wimbledon was 790. Of this number, 424 were males and 366 females.
This gives a birth-rate of 13.71 per thousand of the population as compared
with a rate of 13.94 per thousand in 1956, and an average of
13.45 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
1957 was 13.16 per thousand of the population, whilst the rate for
England and Wales was 16.1 and has averaged 15.5 over the past five
years.
Stillbirths- The number of stillbirths registered during the year
was 18 (12 males and 6 females), this being 2 more than last year. The
stillbirth rate for Wimbledon was 0.31 per thousand of the population,
while that for England and Wales was 0.37.
Illegitimacy -Of the live births registered in 1957, 33 (22 males
and 11 females) were illegitimate, this being 11 fewer than in the preceding
year. One of the 18 stillbirths registered was illegitimate.
The total number of Wimbledon residents who died during 1957
was 652 (306 males and 346 females), giving a death-rate of 11.31 per
thousand of the population as compared with 11.62 per thousand for
1956. The corrected death-rate for 1957 was 9.61 per thousand as compared
with a rate of 11.5 per thousand for England and Wales.
The number of Wimbledon residents who died outside the Borough
was 256, whilst 393 persons not normally resident in Wimbledon died in
institutions, etc., in the Borough.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.