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BIRTHS
The number of live births registered during 1953 was 772, which is
11 less than in the year before. Of these, 400 were males and 372
females, giving a birth rate of 12.5 per thousand population.
The "comparable" birth rate produced by the application of the
Registrar-General's comparability factor of 0.96 to allow for the disparity
in the age and sex constitution of the local population and that of the
country as a whole is 11.9 per thousand population, which compares
with 15.5 for England and Wales.
Information is not available as to the home address of births
registered to Carshalton residents occurring outside the district. 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 within the district. From these
sources it is known that 809 births and 24 stillbirths occurred in 1953.

Seventy-nine 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 79
St. Helier South 80
St. Helier West 75
North-East 81
North-West 87
Central 79
South-East 69
South-West 86
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