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south of those streets, were 1,060, and the birth rate 12.5 per
1,000. The birth-rate in the several sanitary districts was as
follows:—
North 1,065 births, or 3.18 per 1,000 persons living,
North-east 576 births, or 18.9 per 1,000 persons living.
North-west 636 births, or 37.5 per 1,000 persons living.
Central 528 births, or 19.3 per 1,000 persons living.
South-east 377 births, or 11.7 per 1,000 persons living.
South-west 408 births, or 12.7 per 1,000 persons living.
The high birth-rate in the north-west district is suggestive
of an under estimate of the population, which, however,
is based upon the census taken in March, 1896.
The births in the entire parish exceeded the deaths by
569. In the Town sub-district, the births were 591 more in
number than the deaths, whilst in the Brompton sub-district
the deaths exceeded the births to the number of 22,
without correction for births at the infirmary. In North
Kensington the births exceeded the deaths by 633; in South
Kensington the deaths exceeded the births to the number of
64. The excess of births over deaths in the several sanitary
districts was as follows: In the North 407; the North-East
106; the North-West, 64; the Central, 19; the South-East,
57. In the South-West district the deaths exceeded the births
to the number of 84.
The registered births of illegitimate children in the parish,
as a whole, were, as already stated, 191 (nine more than in
1898), viz., males 95, and females 96. Of these births 179
were registered in the Town sub-district, which includes the
workhouse, at which institution out of 116 births (males 60
females 56), 80, including five of still-born children (males 3,
females 2), were illegitimate. In the parish generally the
illegitimate births formed 5.3 per cent. of total births, as compared
with rates of 5.9, 5.3, and 5.0, in the three preceding
years respectively.