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15
THE BIRTH-RATE.
The total number of Births registered in the Borough of Lambeth
during the year 1902 was 9067. Of the total 9067 births,
4636 were males, and 4431 females, showing an excess of 205
males.
Of the total 9067 births registered in the Borough of Lambeth,
446 took place in the Lying-in Hospital (York Road), and of
these, 126 belong to the Borough; whilst 175 took place in the
Workhouse, and of these, 147 belong to the Borough. There
are 348 births belonging to other districts, but these may be
assumed to counteract births amongst Lambethians that have
taken place outside the Borough, and any uregistered births.
The birth-rate for Lambeth is, therefore, 29.7 per 1,000 inhabitants
(32.1 for males, and 27.6 for females), as compared
with 28.4 for London (31.3 for males, and 26.9 for females);
whilst in the various Registration Sub-Districts the birth-rates
work out as shown in Table A, from which it will be seen that the
uncorrected birth-rate in the Inner Districts is 39.2, and that in
the Outer Districts 26.02, per 1000.* Tables B and C show,
for comparison, the number of births, and the birth-rates for 10
years (1891-1900) in the old Parish of Lambeth.
In the Inner Districts (where the birth-rates are high) the
high birth-rates help the high death-rates, owing to the great
numbers of deaths amongst infants and children between 1 and 5
years of age, so that a persistently high birth-rate, instead of
leading to a lower, causes a higher, death-rate, pointing to the
unsatisfactory and less healthy conditions under which the inhabitants
in the Inner Districts of the Borough of Lambeth exist,
as compared with those in the Outer Districts. It must be remembered,
too, that the Lying-in Hospital and the Workhouse
tend to abnormally increase the birth-rates in Waterloo Road
Second and Lambeth Second Districts, the necessary corrections
being given in a footnote (see p. 12).
The birth-rate for the old Parish of Lambeth had been recently
slowly, but surely, declining.
* The corrected birth-rate (i e.. after subtracting the non-Lambethian
births occurring in the Lying-in Hospital and the Workhouse), is 28.6
(Inner Districts =35.1, and Outer Districts = 26.02).