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Births in Lying-in Institutions.
Of the births registered, 124 took place in the Fulham
Workhouse, and the mothers of nine of these children had
resided outside the borough before admission, while the births
of 112 children, whose mothers belonged to Fulham, occurred
in Lying-in Institutions situate in other boroughs; so that the
net total was 4,710, and the corrected birth-rate 28.9.
The birth-rate of the County of London was 25.2 per 1,000,
being the lowest recorded since civil registration was adopted,
and among the several metropolitan boroughs the rates, after
being corrected by the distribution of the births occurring in
Lying-in Institutions to the boroughs in which the mothers had
resided previous to admission, ranged from 14.9 in the City of
London and in Hampstead, 16.7 in Westminster, and 19.2 in
Kensington, to 32.0 in Shoreditch, 32.1 in Stepney, and 32.6 in
Bethnal Green.
The following table gives the number of births registered
and the birth-rates in the various wards, corrected by the distribution
of the births occurring in Fulham Infirmary, but exclusive
of those occurring in Lying-in Institutions outside the
borough:-

Illegitimacy.
The illegitimate births numbered 230,115 boys and 115 girls
—or 5 per cent. of the total births registered in the borough.