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BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
The births registered in the borough numbered 4,199,—2,188
males and 2,011 females—and were equal to an annual rate of
26.5 per 1,000 of the estimated population, which is 5.4 below
the mean rate of the ten years 1899-1908.
Births in Lying-in Institutions.
Of the births registered, 115 took place in the Fulham
Workhouse, and the mothers of seven of these children had
resided, before admission, outside the borough, while the births
of 114 children, whose mothers belonged to Fulham, occurred
in Lying-in Institutions situate in other boroughs, so that the
net number of births was 4,306, and the corrected birth-rate
27.1.
The birth-rate of the County of London was 24.2, being the
lowest recorded since civil registration was adopted, and among
the several metropolitan boroughs the rates, after being corrected
by the distribution of the births occurring in Lying-in
Institutions to the boroughs in which the mothers had resided
previous to admission, ranged from 13.6 in the City of London,
14.1 in Hampstead, and 16.2 in Westminster, to 31.6 in Bethnal
Green, 31.7 in Shoreditch, and 32.3 in Bermondsey.
The following table gives the number of births and the
birth-rates in the various wards, corrected by the distribution
of the births in Fulham Workhouse, and inclusive of those
occurrir:r in outside Maternity Institutions:-