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Births,
During the year, 1516 births were registered, an increase of 10 as
compared with the 1506 registered in the previous year. Of the total,
723 were of male and 793 of female children. The birth rate was 18'1
per 1000 of the population, that of 1901 being 18.3 per 1000.
The natural increase of the population for the year, being the excess
of births over deaths, was 612, as compared with an increase of 633 in
1901.
Reference to Table V., page 69, shews the birth rates for
Hampstead as compared with those for England and Wales since 1875,
and it will be noted that since that date, the rate has only dropped as
low on one other occasion, viz.:—in 1898.
Of the total births registered during the year, 1477 were of legitimate
and 39 of illegitimate children.