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Finsbury 1908
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1908 including annual report on factories and workshops
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BIRTHS. (a) Registration.—During the year, 3,474 births
were registered. This is 113 more than in 1907, when the number
was 3,361. The birth rate of the Borough, using the figure 3,474,
is 36.2; that of London being 25.8. Of the total number, 1,751 were
boys and 1,723 girls. There were 35 twin births, and two of
triplets. In one of the triplet cases the children (all males) were
still-born, and in the other the children, though born alive, eventually
died. Two of the latter were boys and one a girl.
The birth-rate on the registered births is 36.2, but since 631
of the 755 births which occurred in the City of London Lying-in
Hospital were to parents inhabitants of other districts, this number
has to be deducted, leaving 2,843. Births to the number of 59
took place in the City Road Workhouse, and 14 Finsbury births
were notified from other Boroughs. When these figures are added
to 2,843, the total number of births belonging to the Borough
is found to be 2,916, and the birth-rate 30.3.
The following table shews the birth-rates in Finsbury and each
of the sub-registration districts since the Borough was formed:-
TABLE A.—BIRTH RATES.
| The Borough. * | Clerkenwell.† | St. Luke. | St. Sepulchre. | Corrected Birth Rates for the Borough. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | South | |||||
| 1901 | 37.3 | 30.2 | 30.9 | 50.8 | 20.1 | 32.0 |
| 1902 | 36.0 | 30.1 | 30.4 | 45.6 | 23.1 | 31.7 |
| 1903 | 36.4 | 30.5 | 30.9 | 47.3 | 20.3 | 31.4 |
| 1904 | 36.4 | 31.5 | 29.7 | 47.1 | 205 | 31.3 |
| 1905 | 34.6 | 29.1 | 29.0 | 45.3 | 132 | 29. |
| 1906 | 35.5 | 30.7 | 30.0 | 45.1 | 24.7 | 30.9 |
| 1907 | 34.7 | 29.9 | 27.6 | 45.9 | 15.3 | 29.8 |
| 1908 | 36.2 | 29.3 | 49.1 | 18.6 | 30.3 | |
*These rates include the births taking place in the City of London
Lying-in Hospital, only about one-sixth of which belong to the Borough
of Finsbury. This is the reason why the Finsbury birth-rate is frequently
stated to be so high. The corrected birth-rates, after deduction of births
not rightly belonging to Finsbury, is shown in the last column of the
Table.
†The North and South Clerkenwell sub-registration districts were united in
April, 1908.