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BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATES.
The number of births registered within the District during the year
was 3,141—males, 1,593; females, 1,548.
The total births as given by the Registrar-General were 3,286, showing
that 145 were born and registered without the area.
Of the total births, 99 were illegitimate as compared with 86 in 1919,
and 70 in 1914. In other words 2.2 per cent, of the children born in
1914 were illegitimate compared with 3.7 in 1919, and 3 per cent. in
1920, a proportion much less than one might expect, and no indication
of the depravity we hear so much of.
The birth-rate for the year was 24.7 per 1,000 of the civil population,
estimated by the Registrar-General at 132,912.
This rate is an improvement on the two previous years, but less by .7
than that of the Country as a whole and by T5 than that of the 96
Great Towns.
The 148 Smaller Towns had only .2 greater rate than Walthamstow.
The following table (page 20) shows the births distributed in Wards,
with birth-rates for 1919 and 1920, on populations estimated in 1914.
The total populations of the Wards for 1914 is in excess of that
assumed for the District by the Registrar-General for 1920, but there is
no reason to assume that any great changes have occurred in the
Wards. At any rate, the figures, though not accurate, are the same as
used in previous reports, and to this extent will serve for conclusions to
be drawn as to the relative improvement or otherwise noticed from
year to year in the constituent parts of the area.