[butterdezillion]

According to the CDC’s Vital Statistics Report for 1961 (p. 157), Hawaii had a total of 17,578 births in 1961 and Honolulu had 14,874.

That report can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/vsus_1961_1.pdf

Did you find a report that had different numbers?

[Jedidah]

Same numbers here.

http://www.nber.org/vital-stats-books/vsus_1961_1.pdf

That’s still more than 40 babies a day.

[patlin]

The CDC report is based on 50% of the totals.

Honolulu proper had a total of 8268 births, so this would be a more reasonable number to break down for births published in Honolulu papers.

[patlin]

According to the CDC’s Vital Statistics Report for 1961 (p. 157), Hawaii had a total of 17,578 births in 1961

Note the difference between column 1 & 2
Honolulu county:
1 - 14,874 total births by county of occurrence

2 - 14,906 total births

3 - 14,814 physician in hospital

4 - 92 attendant not in hospital and not specified/recorded

see also page 103

again, this is only 50% of the totals for 1961: Data refer only to births occurring within the United States. Based on a 50-percent sample.