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5 years 1896-1900 24-l per 1,000. The lowest birth-rate was reached
in 1903—20.5 per 1,000; since then there has been a small increase,
namely, 1904, 20 9 per 1,000, and 1905, 21.3 per 1,000.
During the past year copies of the Registers of Births have been
forwarded weekly to this office, and later in this Report will be given
information as to the birth-rates and infantile mortality of various
classes of the community.
During the year, 68 births were registered as having occurred in
the Chelsea Workhouse, equivalent to 4.3 per cent. of the total number
of births in the Borough.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE FOR 1905.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough was 1,606.
Of this number 663 were deaths, within the Borough, of nonparishioners—chiefly
occurring in hospitals and in the St. George's
Infirmary; and 163 deaths of parishioners of Chelsea occurred outside
the Borough in various public institutions. There were, therefore,
1,106 deaths of parishioners of Chelsea. These 1,106 deaths are
equivalent to a death-rate for the year of 14.9 per 1,000, as against
a death-rate of 16.5 per 1,000 in 1904.

The death-rate of 14.9 in 1905 is the lowest rate as yet recorded in
Chelsea.
Zymotic Death-rate.—The death-rate in Chelsea from the seven
principal zymotic diseases was 119 per 1,000 in 1905, the corresponding