Immigration Destroying the NHS:

First Maternity Ward Closes as NHS Buckles Under Invader Birth Rate

23rd August 2008

The first — as of yet unnamed — maternity ward at a NHS hospital has been forced to shut its maternity ward for two months because staff were needed elsewhere to deliver babies from foreign-born mothers, it has been announced.

The immigration invasion has reached such heights that maternity wards have been forced to turn away expectant white British mothers because they cannot cope with soaring demand from immigrants.

An investigation by the BBC found the cost of providing maternity services for immigrants has more than doubled in only a decade to £350 million a year.

Guy Goodwin of the Office of National Statistics said: “It is clear that yesterday’s migrants as well as today’s migrants are now contributing to the net population growth we are seeing.”
High immigration has increased the number of women of childbearing age in the UK, with those aged 15 to 44 up 2% since 2001.

The number of babies born to UK-born mothers has risen by 6% in six years, to reach 529,700.

By contrast the figure for immigrant mothers leapt by 64% from 97,900 to 160,300 over the same period – accounting for two thirds of the overall increase in the nation’s birth rate.

The soaring birth rate among immigrant mothers will soon become the main driver of Britain’s rapid population growth, Government experts have predicted.

Immigration has been the biggest factor in increasing the population in recent years, and with millions of new arrivals starting families the birth rate is soaring.

The Office for National Statistics said yesterday that it could be the main source of overall population growth as early as next year, overtaking immigration itself.

Almost a quarter of all babies in Britain are now born to immigrant mothers. In London the figure is 54%, rising to 75% in some boroughs.

Foreign-born mothers have an average of 2.54 children, compared with 1.79 for women born in the UK.

In most cases a baby born in the UK acquires automatic citizenship if one parent holds a UK passport, although rules are complex. If parents have settled in Britain legally, children can secure British citizenship within a few years.

A record number of immigrants settled in the UK in the year to June 2007, topping 600,000 for the first time and helping push Britain’s population to a new high of 60,975,000, a rise of almost two million in six years.

The immigration rate of 605,000 – double the figure when Labour came to power – means that on average 1,650 newcomers are settling here every day.

There are currently 6.3 million people in the UK who were born abroad – well over 10% of the population, and 1.1 million more than in 2004.

Announcing the figures, Government statisticians singled out the number of babies born to immigrants as a significant trend. It threatens to put even more pressure on public services, with schools and hospitals already struggling to cope.

A report published earlier this month revealed that one in eight pupils speaks English as a second language.