Evening all from Estuary-Land. Happy birthday Mike, I was born 2 days and 45 minutes after the NHS came into being (assuming it was one minute after midnight on the 5th of July that it happened. There is a website that calculates how many babies were born in the NHS before ones own birthday and it calculated my figure as over 30,000! As it only calculated on the date only and not the time and as I was born in the early hours I put the day before my birthday in and it still came up with 21,000, That means that the birthrate in 1948 was10,000 a day. I think the creator of that website put a decimal point in the wrong place.