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BIRTHS.
reports. It lias, therefore, been deemed advisable on this occasion to simply state that the
population of the Borough at tho middle of 1901 has been estimated at 144,188 persons.

On a future occasion it will be possiblo to include the numbers estimated living in each agesex-group
in each of the above Districts and in the "Wards.
The estimate of the population of tho old Parish at the middle of 1900, based on the data
obtained at the Census of 1891 and tho enumeration of 1896, amounted to 130,596 persons.
Re-calculating the estimate for that year on the data afforded by the last Census, the estimate becomes
126,004 persons, showing a total error of 4,592 persons, equal to 3.6 per cent. Using the estimate
then available, the birth-rate for 1900 was calculated to bo 22.13 per 1,000 persons, whereas on the
re-calculated rate, it was found to be 22.93 or 0.80 higher, not a very great divergence.
BIRTHS.
During tho year 3,359 births were registered in the Borough, equivalent to an annual
rate of 23.29 per 1,000 of tho population estimated living at the middle of the year. Of the 3,359
children born, 1,748 were boys and 1,611 girls, the corresponding rates being 13.12 and 11.17
respectively. In St. Mary's Registration Sub-District 2,536 births wore registered, equal to a rate
of 27.14, 1,315 of the infants being boys and 1,221 girls. In St. John, the total births were 389
(the birth-rate being 11.57), 204 of boys and 185 of girls. In North-West Paddington the
corresponding figures were 434 total births (rate 25.30), 229 of boys and 205 of girls. (See
Table 10.)
Comparison with previous years is almost valueless as applied to the whole area. In Table 11
the rates for- the years 1891-1900 are given for the old Parish and its two Registration SubDistricts.
The latter are strictly comparable. In St. Mary the birth-rate last year (27.14) was
1.32 per 1,000 below the decennial mean (28.46) and in St. John the reduction amounted to 1.55 per
1,000. The mean rate for the whole area was 24.24 for the ten years, or 0.95 above the rate for
last year (23.29). The disparity in the declines indicated is undoubtedly due to the influence of
North-West Paddington, where the rate last year was the highest in the Borough.