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(a) Vital Statistics.
POPULATION.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the total population of
the Borough for the year 1938 is 61,4.70, which shows a decrease
of 550 from that for 1937 and a decrease of 1,147 from the Census
figure. The decrease of 550 is no doubt largely accounted for
by plans for the extension of the Great West Road, which cuts
through the residential part of Chiswick and has caused so
many houses of the better class type to be vacated and their
occupants to move out of the Borough.
The excess of births over deaths during the past eight
years is 1,058, but this of course is only one factor taken into
account when forming the estimate.
BIRTHS.
There were 816 births registered as belonging to the area
during the year (422 male and 394 female). Of these, 44 were
illegitimate (22 male and 22 female). In addition there were
21 stillbirths registered, one of which was illegitimate.
The Birth Rate for the Borough for 1938 was therefore
13.26—a figure slightly below that for London and below that
for England and Wales as a whole.
DEATHS.
Table 1 on page 12 shows the causes of the 671 deaths of
residents of the area, which is equivalent to a Recorded Death
Rate of 10.92 per 1,000 of the estimated population and a
Corrected Death Rate of 11.14 for the purposes of comparison
with other areas.
It is interesting to note that of the 671 deaths, 375 or
56 per cent. occurred in Hospitals and Institutions outside the
Borough.