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BIRTHS.
During the year 1,270 births were registered in Hampstead, a
decrease of 12 as compared with the number—1,282—registered in the
previous year. Of the total births 632 were of male and 638 of female
children. In addition, 78 births of children whose mothers were
Hampstead residents occurred in the principal lying-in institutions in
other metropolitan boroughs, and eight of the births registered in
Hampstead belonged to other districts, and should be deducted from the
total. After these corrections have been made, the total number of
births belonging to Hampstead is found to be 1,340, and, in accordance
with the practice of the Registrar-General, I have taken this number
as a basis for the various rates that depend on the number of births
occurring during the year.
Illegitimate Births.—Out of the total of 1,270 births registered in
Hampstead, 36, or 28 per 1000, were those of illegitimate children.
Birth-Rate.
The birth-rate calculated on the number of births registered in
the Borough was 13.2 per 1000 of the population, as compared with the
rate of 13.6 per 1000 in 1909, and 16.4 the average for the years
1900—1909. But when the birth-rate is calculated on the total number
of births belonging to Hampstead, including those that took place
without as well as within the Borough, the rate is found to be 14.0.
This is slightly higher than the rate—13.9—in 1909, which is the
lowest birth-rate ever recorded in Hampstead, the lowest rate in any
previous year being 14.7, in 1907.