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the birth rate.
The total number of Births registered' in the Borough of
Lambeth during the year 1909 was 8,445. Of the total
8,445 births, 4,301 were males, and 4,144 females, showing
an excess of 157 males.
Of the total 8,445 births registered in the Borough of Lambeth,
803 took place in the Lying-in Hospital (York Road),
and of these 224 belong to the Borough; 203 took place in
the Workhouse (Brook Street), and of these 179 belong to
the Borough; whilst 469 took place in the Maternity Hospital
(Jeffrey's Road), and of these 111 belong to the
Borough. Thus, there are 962 births belonging to other
districts. The Lying-in Hospital, the Workhouse and the
Maternity Hospital tend to abnormally increase the birthrates
in Waterloo, Kennington and Stockwell Districts respectively,
and the necessary corrections are, consequently,
made in a footnote to Table A (see p. 10).
The birth-rate for Lambeth is 26.4 per 1,000 inhabitants
(28.02 for males, and 24.3 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 33.1, and that
in the Outer Districts 20.6 per 1,000—the corrected birthrates
(i.e., excluding Non-Lambethian births) being respectively
23.1 for the whole Borough, 27.5 for the Inner, and
19.7 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. As has been previously
noted, this decline is not peculiar to Lambeth, nor
even to England', but is to be found in nearly all civilised
countries.