Torquay Municipal Borough (MB) : Births by legitimacy

Births by legitimacy

Data cube chart.

Year Legitimate Illegitimate
31 Dec 1911 505 Show data context 33 Show data context
31 Dec 1912 549 Show data context 25 Show data context
31 Dec 1913 506 Show data context 29 Show data context
31 Dec 1914 507 Show data context 41 Show data context
31 Dec 1915 454 Show data context 43 Show data context
31 Dec 1916 417 Show data context 42 Show data context
31 Dec 1917 371 Show data context 30 Show data context
31 Dec 1918 353 Show data context 59 Show data context
31 Dec 1919 450 Show data context 81 Show data context
31 Dec 1920 601 Show data context 56 Show data context
31 Dec 1922 456 Show data context 34 Show data context
31 Dec 1923 464 Show data context 24 Show data context
31 Dec 1924 485 Show data context 36 Show data context
31 Dec 1925 465 Show data context 48 Show data context
31 Dec 1926 482 Show data context 25 Show data context
31 Dec 1927 540 Show data context 30 Show data context
31 Dec 1928 524 Show data context 33 Show data context
31 Dec 1929 494 Show data context 35 Show data context
31 Dec 1930 496 Show data context 43 Show data context
31 Dec 1931 546 Show data context 26 Show data context
31 Dec 1932 460 Show data context 39 Show data context
31 Dec 1933 483 Show data context 46 Show data context
31 Dec 1934 456 Show data context 37 Show data context
31 Dec 1935 496 Show data context 39 Show data context
31 Dec 1936 496 Show data context 47 Show data context
31 Dec 1937 463 Show data context 44 Show data context
31 Dec 1938 461 Show data context 35 Show data context
31 Dec 1939 491 Show data context 34 Show data context
31 Dec 1940 497 Show data context 46 Show data context
31 Dec 1941 470 Show data context 65 Show data context
31 Dec 1942 508 Show data context 61 Show data context
31 Dec 1943 513 Show data context 81 Show data context
31 Dec 1944 622 Show data context 120 Show data context
31 Dec 1945 585 Show data context 111 Show data context
31 Dec 1946 722 Show data context 87 Show data context
31 Dec 1947 772 Show data context 68 Show data context
31 Dec 1948 644 Show data context 73 Show data context
31 Dec 1949 607 Show data context 48 Show data context
31 Dec 1950 586 Show data context 36 Show data context
31 Dec 1951 566 Show data context 56 Show data context
31 Dec 1952 560 Show data context 41 Show data context
31 Dec 1953 553 Show data context 46 Show data context
31 Dec 1954 544 Show data context 31 Show data context
31 Dec 1955 499 Show data context 26 Show data context
31 Dec 1956 531 Show data context 33 Show data context
31 Dec 1957 522 Show data context 34 Show data context
31 Dec 1963 558 Show data context 70 Show data context
31 Dec 1964 650 Show data context 73 Show data context
31 Dec 1965 622 Show data context 95 Show data context
31 Dec 1966 614 Show data context 86 Show data context
31 Dec 1967 601 Show data context 100 Show data context
Date Source
1911 - 1920 Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) ,
1922 - 1967 Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office) ,

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nCube definition


The Ministry of Labour's inter-war Local Unemployment Index (LUI) mainly reported rates of unemployment, as percentages. They also listed the total number of persons insured, enabling the actual number unemployed to be calculated, but this was not broken down by sex and age. Between 1927 and 1936 the LUI was known to be imprecise because the unemployed counts included (a) workers insured under the Agricultural Scheme, (b) workers aged between 14 and 16 and (c) workers aged 65 and over, while the count of insured wo...


rkers used as a divisor for the rate did not.

In January 1937 a 'New Series' of the LUI began in which the number recorded as unemployed excluded the above categories. All reports included figures for change in the total percentage unemployed over the preceding twelve months, and those given in the 1937 reports are based on an adjusted figure for the previous year. It is therefore possible for 1936 to compare the rates originally published with corrected rates for the same places and dates. The figures here are the unadjusted rates.


How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Torquay Municipal Borough (MB) through time | Historical Statistics on Life & Death | Births by legitimacy, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10026271/cube/BIRTH_LEGIT

Date accessed: 29th July 2026