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BIRTHS.
The number of live births registered during the year fell from 808
in the year before to 758, thus continuing the progressive decline from
the post-war peak year of 1946. Of the total births, 368 were males
and 390 females, giving a birth rate of 12.3 per thousand of population.
The "comparable" birthrate produced by the application of the
Registrar-General's comparability factor of 0.94 to allow for differences
in the age and sex constitution of the population was 11.5 per thousand
population, which compares with the rate for England and Wales of 15.5.
Information available from the registration of births is not complete
as to the home addresses of the parents. For computation of ward
birth rates, therefore, use is made of the notifications of births received
under the Public Health Act, supplemented by the Registrar's weekly
returns of registrations. From these sources it is known that 757 live
births and 24 stillbirths occurred in 1951.

Seventy-one per cent of all births occurred in hospitals and nursing
homes. The percentages of such births for the individual wards were
as follows:—
St. Helier North 63
St. Helier South 84
St. Helier West 75
North-East 68
North-West 67
Central 73
South-East 72
South-West 77
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