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BIRTHS.
During last year 3,192 births were registered in
this Borough against 3,022 in the previous year. Making
due allowance for the increase of the population, the
number of births registered last year was 34 below the
average number registered during the last 10 years.
On the population estimated up to the middle of the
year, i.e., 114,210 inhabitants, the number of births
registered was equal to an annual rate of 27.9 births
per 1,000 persons living. The birth-rate in London
on the estimated population of London up to the middle
of the year, i.e., 4,579,110 inhabitants, was equal to
an annual rate of 28.5 births per 1,000 persons living.
DEATHS.
During last year 1,597 deaths were registered in
this Borough, against 1,655 in the previous year.
Making due allowance for the increase of the population,
the number of deaths registered in this Borough
last year was 136 below the average number registered
during the last 10 years. Adding 435 deaths of
Burgesses of this Borough, which took place in general
hospitals and other public institutions in other Boroughs
of London, in London County Lunatic Asylums and
Metropolitan Imbecile Asylums, and deducting 160
deaths of non-Burgesses which occurred, 122 at West
London Hospital, and 38 at Nazareth House, the
corrected number of deaths of Biirgesses registered last
year was 1,872. On the before-mentioned estimated
population, the corrected number of deaths of Burgesses
registered last year was equal to an annual rate of 16"4
deaths per 1,000 persons living ; the death rate in
London on the estimated population of London up to
the middle of the year was equal to an annual rate of
17.7 deaths per 1,000 persons living.
No allowance is made in this report as heretofore of
deaths of non-parishioners which occurred at the
Convent of the Good Shepherd, St. Joseph's School,