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VITAL STATISTICS
POPULATION
The Registrar-General's mid-year estimate of the civilian population of
Wimbledon, 57,460, shews an estimated increase of 10 on the previous year.
This is the first increase of population reported by the Registrar-General
since 1952, and it will be interesting to see what figure is produced when the
more accurate Census of population is taken in 1961c At the last Census, in
1951, Wimbledon population was 58,141.
All rates used in this report are based on the Registrar-General5s
figures.
BIRTHS
The statistics supplied by the Registrar-General show that during the year
1960, the total number of registered live births belonging to Wimbledon was 885.
Of this number, 456 were males and 429 females. This gives a birth-rate of
15.40 per thousand of the population as compared with a rate of 14.72 per
thousand in 1959, and an average of 14°31 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 1960 was 14.79 per thousand
of the population, whilst the rate for England and Wales was 17.1 and has
averaged 16.3 over the past five years.
STILLBIRTHS - The number of stillbirths registered during the year was 14
(8 males and 6 females), which was 1 fewer than last year. The stillbirth
rate for Wimbledon was 0.24 per thousand of the population, whilst that for
England and Wales was 0.30.
ILLEGITIMACY - Of the live births registered in i960, 57 (26 males and
31 females) were illegitimate, this being 6 more than in the preceding year.
Three of the 14 stillbirths registered were illegitimate.
DEATHS
The total number of Wimbledon residents who died during 1960 was 668
311 males and 357 females), giving a death-rate of 11.62 per thousand of the
population as compared with 13.09 per thousand for 1959• The corrected deathrate
for 1960 was 9.88 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 304,
whilst 456 persons not normally resident in Wimbledon died in institutions,
etc. in the Borough.
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