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VITAL STATISTICS.
POPULATION
The Registrar-General's mid-year estimate of the civilian population,
57,520 shews an estimated decrease of 110 on the previous year,
although the natural increase by excess of births over deaths was 124.
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 1958, the total number of registered live births belonging to
Wimbledon was 794. Of this number, 421 were males and 373 females.
This gives a birth-rate of 13.80 per thousand of the population as compared
with a rate of 13.71 per thousand in 1957, and an average of 13.12
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
1958 was 13.24 per thousand of the population, whilst the rate for
England and Wales was 16.4 and has averaged 16.0 over the past five
years.
Stillbirths - The number of stillbirths registered during the year
was 21 (12 males and 9 females), this being 3 more than last year. The
stillbirth rate for Wimbledon was 0.36 per thousand of the population,
whilst that for England and Wales was also 0.36.
Illegitimacy - Of the live births registered in 1958, 41 (23 males
and 18 females) were illegitimate, this being 8 more than in the preceding
year. Two of the 21 stillbirths registered were illegitimate.
DEATHS.
The total number of Wimbledon residents who died during 1958
was 670 (317 males and 353 females), giving a death-rate of 11.64 per
thousand of the population as compared with 11.31 per thousand for
1957. The corrected death-rate for 1958 was 9.89 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 257, whilst 418 persons not normally resident in Wimbledon died in
institutions, etc., in the Borough.