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The diminished birth.rate in the home district is, no doubt, largely
due to the changes that have been in progress of recent years affecting
the social conditions of the population, many poor and crowded
neighboui hoods having been swept away to make room for the
inhabitants of highly.rated houses and flats. In Kensal Town,
however, with its essentially working class population, the tendency
towards a steadily declining birth.rate is also noticeable, and is probably
not attributable to any falling off in the marriage-rate. In London
generally the birth-rate also shows a progressive decline during the past
eight years.
DEATHS AND DEATH-KATE EOE 1899.
The total number of deaths registered in the parish was 1,827. Of
this total 300 were deaths, within the district, of non-parishioners—
chiefly occurring in the hospitals of the parish; and 231 deaths of
parishioners of Chelsea occurred outside the distriot in various public
institutions. There were, therefore, 1,758 deaths of parishioners of
Chelsea. These 1,758 deaths are equivalent to a death-rate for the
year of 18*2 per 1,000, as against a death-rate of 17'7 per 1,000 in
1897.