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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The birth-rate was 16·40 per 1,000, compared with 14·29 for
1918, and 19·85 the decennial average. There was a considerable
increase in the number of births during the last two months of the
year, and it is to be hoped that in 1920 the birth-rate will show a
decided increase.
Table III. shows the birth-rate in the Borough, in the five
sub-districts, in London, and in England and Wales, for the year,
as well as the rates for the previous 10 years, compared with the
decennial average.
84 births occurred in the Workhouse, 47 of which belonged
to the Borough.
328 illegitimate births took place in the Borough, 17 in Clapham,
14 in Putney, 222 in Streatham, 15 in Tooting, and 60 in
Wandsworth.