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THE BIRTH-RATE.
The total number of Births registered in the Borough of
Lambeth during the year 1904 was 9059. Of the total 9059
births, 4,590 were males, and 4,469 females, showing an excess
of 121 males.
Of the total 9059 births registered in the Borough of Lambeth,
495 took place in the Lying-in Hospital (York Road), and of
these, 178 belong to the Borough; whilst 190 took place in the
Workhouse (Brook Street), and of these, 161 belong to the
Borough. Thus, there are 346 births belonging to other districts,
but these may be assumed to counteract in number the births
(amongst Lambethians) 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 29.2 per 1000 inhabitants (31.3
for males, and 27.3 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 40.1, and that in the Outer Districts 25.8, per
1000—the corrected birth-rates being respectively 28.04 for the
whole borough, 36.01 for the Inner, and 25.8 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.
The birth-rate for Lambeth (Parish and 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