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14
THE BIRTH-RATE.
The total number of Births registered in the Borough of
Lambeth during the year 1903 was 9069. Of the total 9069
births, 4618 were males, and 4451 females, showing an excess
of 167 males.
Of the total 9069 births registered in the Borough of Lambeth,
499 took place in the Lying-in Hospital (York Road), and of
these, 124 belong to the Borough; whilst 198 took place in the
Workhouse (Brook Street), and of these, 169 belong to the
Borough. Thus, there are 404 births belonging to other districts,
but these may be assumed to counteract in number the births
amongst Lainbethians that have taken place outside the Borough,
together with any unregistered births.
The Lying-in Hospital and the Workhouse tend to abnormally
increase the birth-rates in Waterloo Road and Lambeth Church
Second Districts, and the necessary corrections are, consequently,
made in a footnote to Table A (see p. 11),
The birth-rate for Lambeth is 29.5 per 1000 inhabitants (31.7
for males, and 27.4 for females); whilst in the various Registration
Sub-Districts the birth-rates work out as shown in Table A,
from which it will be seen that the uncorrected birth-rate in the
Inner Districts is 40T, and that in the Outer Districts 25.4, per
1000—the corrected birth-rates being respectively 28.2 for the
whole borough, 35.4 for the Inner, and 25.4 for the Outer,
Districts.
Tables B and C show, for comparison, the number of births,
and the birth-rates for 10 years (1891-1900) in the old Parish of
Lambeth.
Tne birth-rate for Limbsth (Parish aud Borough) has been
recently slowly, but steadily, declining. This decline is not
peculiar to Lambeth, nor even to England, but is to be found
in nearly all civilised countries, and is greater in reality than
would appear on the surface; for it must be remembered that
pari passu with this declining birth-rate is a greater declining
death-rate.