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the large hotels, the student class in the Bloomsbury boarding houses, residents
in large commercial, social and philanthropic hostels, working class population
in model dwellings and tenement lodging houses (many of whom are very poor),
and a relatively large proportion of very poor people in common lodging houses.
Although the number of hotels and boarding houses keeps increasing, the
Borough continues to become less residential and more important as a
business centre. The number of factories, workshops, workplaces and offices
keeps increasing so that we are adding to our large and crowded day population
of London's workers.
The birth-rates and death-rates given in this report are the crude rates, that
is to say no correction has been made for sex and age distribution. The population
of the Borough is such that probably a truer indication of the birth and
death incidence would be indicated by rates corrected for such distribution. As.
however, the Registrar-General in his summary tables and statistical review gives
crude rates only, it is thought better for comparison purposes to adopt the same
principle for this report.

Registered Births.
The total number of births registered as occurring in the Borough was 211
(120 males and 91 females). Of these, 198 were legitimate and 13 illegitimate.
Corrected Births and Birth-Rate.
I received from the Registrar-General information of the births in outlying
institutions in London of 123 legitimate infants and 33 illegitimate infants whose
mothers were residents of the Borough. Fifteen of the births occurring in the
Borough, 13 legitimate and 2 illegitimate, were infants of mothers who were non¬residents
of the Borough. The corrected number of births is therefore 352, and the
corrected birth-rate 10.21.