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London County Council 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1911.

Table: The following table shows the mean annual rate of natural increase of the population per 1,000 living in certain periods from 1886 to 1911 :—

The following table shows the mean annual rate of natural increase of the population per 1,000 living in certain periods from 1886 to 1911 :—

Period.Annual birth-rates per 1,000 living.Annual death-rates per 1,000 living.Annual rate of natural increase per 1,000 living.
London.Greater London. (a)England and Wales.London.Greater London. («)England and Wales.London.Greater London. (a)England and Wales.
1886-189032-10b31.9731.4419.69c18.6818.8912.4113.2912.55
1891-189530-76b30.4630.4819.82c18.4918.7110.9411.9711.77
1896-190029-66b29.3129.2718.51c17.2317.6911.1512.0811.58
1901-190528-55b28.5728.1516.41c15.1416.0312.1413.4312.12
1906-191026-52b26.2826.2214.88c13.7214.6811.6412.5611.54
190627-65b27.5227.1715.75c14.6615.4411.9012.8611.73
190726-89b26.7526.4015.34c14.1815.0711.5512.5711.33
190826-71b26.5326.7014.64c13.5614.7812.0712.9711.92
190925-83b25.5825.7814.99c13.7614.6010.8411.8211.18
191025*54b250225.0413.69c12.4413.4911.8512.5811.55
191124-78b24.4224.3715.04c13.8314.609.7410.599.77

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Natural
increaselate
in large
English
towns.

Table: The following table enables comparison to be made of the rates of natural increase of the London population with those of the principal towns of England in the period 1906-10, and in the year 1911.

The following table enables comparison to be made of the rates of natural increase of the London population with those of the principal towns of England in the period 1906-10, and in the year 1911.

Town.1906-10.1911.Town.1906-10.1911.
London11.6 be9. 8beBradford4.74.1
Greater London12.610.6Hull13611.9
Liverpool12.610.2Newcastle-on-Tvne14010.
Manchester10.69.2Nottingham10.5.4
Birmingham12.911..3Stoke-on-Trent..11.6
Sheffield14.311.7Portsmouth12.710.9
Leeds10.17.4Salford11.810.5
Bristol11.06.7Leicester10.99.4
West Ham15.914.2

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Natural
increase-rate
in foreign
towns

Table: The factors affecting the rates of natural increase in different localities to which reference has been made, probably tend more to vitiate accurate comparison when the populations concerned are of different nationalities, and this should be borne in mind in connection with the following table showing the rate of increase in London and certain foreign towns (d) :—

The factors affecting the rates of natural increase in different localities to which reference has been made, probably tend more to vitiate accurate comparison when the populations concerned are of different nationalities, and this should be borne in mind in connection with the following table showing the rate of increase in London and certain foreign towns (d) :—

Town.1906-10.1911.Town.1906-10.1911.
London11.6bc9.8beSt. Petersburg3-77*4
Paris0.80*0Berlin8-05-2
Brussels3.23-2Vienna6*63-6
Amsterdam11.610*3New York10*411*9
Copenhagen12.49-8
Stockholm9.2: 9*3

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The natural increase during the period 1906-10 in New York is probably understated, owing to
incomplete registration of births prior to 1908. It will be noticed that the excess of births over
deaths in 1911 is below the average of the preceding five years in all the foreign towns except
Brussels, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, and Now York. These rates can only be regarded as approximate,
and in making comparison of one town with another it should be borne in mind that full correction
for births and deaths in institutions might considerably modify the rates of some of
the towns.
(a) Greater London is the administrative area of the Metropolitan and City police.
(b) For tho purposes of these rates the births in the principal lying-in institutions have been distributed to
tho district to which they belong.
(c) These death-rates are l'ully corrected for institutions, by tho exclusion of deaths of persons not belonging
to, but occurring in, institutions situated within London, and by the inclusion of deaths of persons belonging to
London, but occurring in London institutions situated outside the Administrative County. For the year 1911, tho
rates are further corrected by the inclusion of noil-institutional deaths of London residents occurring in the outer
"Ring of Greater London.
(