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Births and Birth Rate. (Figures for 1956 are given in brackets.)
The total number of registered births in the district (as notified under the Births and
Deaths Registration Act) was 167 (135). The total number of live births belonging to the
district, whether occurring within or outside the district, was 794 (713). The illegitimate
live births were 37 (38). There were 15 stillbirths (9), all of these being legitimate.
A rise in the birth rate (live and still) is recorded from 13.57 in 1956 to 14.98 in 1957.
The birth rate is the number of births per 1,000 of the total population, and the figure in
1957 is the highest since 1949, when it was 15.72.

To make an approximate allowance for the way in which the sex and age distribution
of the local population differs from that for England and Wales as a whole, the birth rate is
multiplied by a comparability factor supplied by the Registrar.General. The corrected
live birth rate was 15.43. The corresponding rate for the whole of England and Wales
was 16.1.
infant Mortality
Infant mortality, i.e. the number of children dying before reaching the age of one year,
rose in 1957. Seventeen infants died, as compared with 13 during 1956, giving an infant
mortality rate of 21 29 per 1,000 live births, as against 18.23 in 1956 Of these 17 deaths,
2 died at home and 15 in hospital. Thirteen infants (7 male and 6 female) died within the
first four weeks after birth. Table V gives the causes of infant deaths under the age of one
year. Graph A, on infant mortality rates, shows the trend of the infant mortality rate since
1900. The infant mortality rate for Middlesex County was 17.7, the lowest ever recorded
in Middlesex, and the infant mortality rate for England and Wales as a whole was 23.1, the
lowest ever recorded in this country. It will be seen that Southall's figure is still lower
than the national one, but only three other districts in Middlesex had a higher infant
mortality.
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