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The average birth-rate of the Borough for the years 1901-1908 is 21.0,
and of the Home District of the Parish of Chelsea for the 5 years 18961900,
24.1 per 1,000. The birth-rate for the past year is the lowest yet
recorded.
During the year, 58 births were registered as having occurred in the
Chelsea Workhouse, equivalent to 4.1 per cent. of the total number of
births in the Borough, as compared with 5.4 per cent. in 1908.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE FOR 1909.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough was 1,625. Of
this number 740 were deaths within the Borough of non-parishioners
—chiefly occurring in Hospitals, and in the St. George's Infirmary ; and
202 deaths of parishioners of Chelsea occurred outside the Borough in
various public institutions. There were, therefore, 1,087 deaths of
parishioners of Chelsea. These 1,087 deaths are equivalent to a deathrate
for the year of 14.5 per 1,000, the same as in 1908.
Table III. gives the death-rates of the Home District of Chelsea, of
Chelsea Borough, and of London during the past 19 years.

*1891-1900, Chelsea Home District.