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POPULATION
The population continues to fall slightly. The Registrar-General's
estimate of the home population is given as 56,020, a further decrease of
360 on the year before. Since this fall is primarily due to the outward
migration of young married adults seeking new homes, the average age of
the population is rising. The number of people aged 60 years and over
which was 7,395 in 1951, rose to 10,223 at the census of 1961, a rise from
11.8% of the total population to 17.8%.
The following table shows the estimated home population of each
ward at the middle of 1963 and is an estimated apportionment of the
Registrar-General's total figure for the year.

BIRTHS
The number of births continued to fall slightly. Live births registered
during the year numbered 697 of which 345 were males and 352 females.
This gives a crude birth rate of 12.4 which when adjusted by the RegistrarGeneral's
"comparability" factor of 1.03, gives a comparable rate of 12.5
per thousand population. This is the figure which should be compared
with the national rate of 18.2.
The number of stillbirths established a new low figure, only three
being recorded. This gives a stillbirth rate of 4.2 per thousand total
births compared with 17.3 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 local Registrar's
weekly returns of registrations within the district.
From these sources it is
known that 701 live births and 3 stillbirths occurred in 1963. They were
distributed as shown in the following table.
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