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BIRTHS
The number of live births registered during 1954 was 824, which is
52 more than in the year before. Of these, 423 were males and 401
females, giving a birth rate of 13.3 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 12.7 per thousand population, which compares
with 13.2 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 816 births and 20 stillbirths occurred in 1954.

Seventy-eight 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
St. Helier South 86
St. Helier West 85
North-East 76
North-West 77
Central 92
South-Eas 69
South-West 81