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Clapham Maternity Lying-in Institutions, of the Master of the Strand
Workhouse at Edmonton, the Secretary of the French Hospital, the
Steward of St. George's Workhouse, Fulham Road, and of other Medical
Officers, I have ascertained that 356 children were born in outlying
institutions, the home address of whose mothers was in Westminster.
Rescue Homes to which the women had been brought from other districts
form a proportion of these addresses, and frequently the mother and
child return to the Home. The Registrar-General now relegates these
births to the districts whence they came, so that the number of
outlying births placed to the credit of Westminster is 311. The net
number of births was, therefore, 2,361 as compared with 2,592 in 1910.
The birth-rate, uncorrected, was 13.2, corrected 14.7 per 1,000 persons.
The corrected birth-rate for the five years 1901—5 was 17.1, and for
the five years 1906—10, 16.9 per 1,000.
The birth-rate for the County of London for 1911 was 24.8, the
rate during the preceding ten years averaged 25.8 per 1,000. Westminster
had the lowest rate of any Metropolitan City or Borough. In
Poplar, Bethnal Green, Bermondsey, Shoreditch, Stepney, and Finsbury
the birth-rate was over 30 per 1,000 population. The birth-rate in
England and Wales was 24.4; the average of the preceding ten years
was 27.2. The birth-rate was again lower than any rate recorded since
registration was established.