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The birth-rate, which of late years has been always considerably below that of London, as
a whole, has been declining since 1868, in which year it was 331 per 1,000 persons living. In 1902
it was 19.3 per 1,000, and 2.8 below the decennial average (22.1).
The rate in the sub-districts was:—Town, 22.5, and Brompton, 10.7 per 1,000.
The London birth-rate (28.5 per 1,000) was lower than that recorded in any one of the ten
preceding years; the decennial average rate being 30.1 per 1,000.
The births in North Kensington, i.e. the part of the borough north of Holland Park Avenue
and High Street, Notting Hill, were 2,486, and the birth-rate 26.6 per 1,000 living, being 1.9 below
the Metropolitan rate.
The births in South Kensington, i.e., the remainder of the borough south of the streets above
named, were 1,002, and the birth-rate 11.4, or 17.1 per 1,000 below the Metropolitan rate.
The birth-rate in the several wards, after distribution of the births at the borough infirmary
but without correction for the 53rd week, was as follows:—
St. Charles 624 births, or 27.7 per 1,000 persons living.
North Golborne 880 births, or 32.6 per 1,000 persons living.
Kensington Norland 608 births, or 25.3 per 1,000 persons living.
Pembridge 374 births, or 18.9 per 1,000 persons living.
Holland 279 births, or 13.4 per 1,000 persons living.
South Earl's Court 226 births, or 12.2 per 1,000 persons living.
Kensington Queen's Gate 117 births, or 80 per 1,000 persons living.
Redcliffe 238 births, or 12.4 per 1,000 persons living.
Brompton 142 births, or 9.8 per 1,000 persons living.
The births in the Borough exceeded the deaths by 742,* without correction for the 53rd week.
In the Town sub-district the births were 713 more in number than the deaths; in the
Brompton sub-district the excess of births was 29 only, without correction for births at the infirmary.
In North Kensington the births exceeded the deaths by 718; in South Kensington to the
number of 24 only.
The excess of births over deaths in the several wards was as follows:—
St. Charles 239 Holland 5
North _ Golborne 392 South Queeen's Gate 1
Kensington Norland 45 Kensington Redcliffe 25
Pembridge 42 Brompton 4
718 85
In Earl's Court Ward the deaths exceeded the births by 11.
The registered births of illegitimate children in the borough, as a whole, were, as already
stated, 161 (3 fewer than in 1901), viz., males 82 and females 79. Of these births, 151 were registered
in the Town sub-district, which includes the workhouse, at which institution out of 132 births
(males 74, females 58), 91 were illegitimate. In the borough, generally, the illegitimate births
formed 4.6 per cent. of total births as compared with rates of 5.3, 5T, and 4.6, in the three preceding
years.
The subjoined table shows the quarterly number of births of males and females in the
borough, and in each of the sub-districts :—
Kensington Town.
Brompton.
The Borough.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Total.
1st Quarter
418
405
823
69
76
145
968
2nd „
361
346
707
56
55
111
818
3rd „
373
350
723
69
81
150
873
4th „
333
370
703
64
62
126
829
1,485
1,471
2,956
258
274
532
3,488
Illegitimate
27
26
53
1
3
4
57
Births
12
20
32
—
1
1
33
22
17
39
2
2
4
43
18
9
27
—
1
1
28
79
72
151
3
7
10
161
* In the Metropolis, as a whole, the births exceeded the deaths by 50,270.