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which were transferred from the City of London Hospital,
Lambeth and Poplar, it will be seen that the number of
strictly Greenwich births for 1910 is 2,410, of which
1,218 were males and 1,192 females.
This corrected figure gives a birth rate of 21-41 per
1,000 of the population, being the lowest on record, and
4-19 below the average for the last nine years, 1901 to
1909, the period since the formation of the Metropolitan
Borough.
Amongst the total number of births registered in the
Borough there were 89 in which the name of the father
was not registered and therefore not given in the return;
accordingly these births may be presumed to be of an
illegitimate character. 70 of such births were registered
in the East Greenwich district, which includes the Infirmary
of the Greenwich Union.
In 32 cases the mother was ordinarily a resident in the
Borough of Deptford, and accordingly this number of
births have been transferred to that Borough.
The remaining 5 7 were similarly allocated to the districts
in this Borough in which the mother ordinarily
resided, making 26 of such births belonging to East
Greenwich, 17 to West Greenwich, 9 to St. Nicholas, and
5 to Charlton.
The birth rate for the County of London equals 23.6
per 1,000 of the population, and was the lowest rate
recorded. It varied from 13.3 in the City of London,
14.0 in Hampstead, 15.2 in the City of Westminster,
17.5 in Kensington, and 18.0 in Stoke Newington, up
to 29.7 in Poplar, 29.9 in Finsbury, 316 in Bermondsey,
31.7 in Shoreditch, and 32.1 in Bethnal Green.