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POPULATION.
The Registrar General's estimate of the population for
1945 is 66,050. This figure is low compared with an estimate
based on occupied dwellings such as is used for local computation
of the ward population.
The Registrar General has again provided an estimate of
the population under five and between five and fifteen. This
has been done primarily to secure uniformity in calculation of
immunisation figures, as there is a tendency to wide variation
from district to district in locally compiled estimates.
The figures for the age group 0-4 inclusive is 4,720 and
for the age group 5-14 inclusive is 9,480.
BIRTHS.
The registered live births totalled 1,027, a decrease of 124
on the previous year; and the birth rate has shown a corresponding
fall from 18.3 to 15.5 per 1,000 of the population.
Of the total live births 492 were males and 535 females.
There were 63 illegitimate births; of these 29 were males and
34 females. There were 26 stillbirths; 13 male and 13 female.
INSTITUTIONAL AND DOMICILIARY BIRTHS.
The tendency of recent years towards increased Institutional
confinements continued and in 1945 seventy-three per
cent. of the births which occurred took place in hospitals or
nursing homes, as follows:—
St. Helier Hospital 341
Nelson Hospital 216
Kingston County Hospital 22
Other hospitals, institutions and nursing homes 194
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