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The average birth-rate of the Borough for the years 1901-1907 is
21.1, and of the Home District of the Parish of Chelsea for the 5 years
1896-1900, 24.1 per 1,000.
During the year 83 births were registered as having occurred in the
Chelsea Workhouse, equivalent to 5.4 per cent. of the total number of
births in the Borough, as compared with 4.2 per cent. in 1907.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE FOR 1908.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough was 1,653.
Of this number 705 were deaths within the Borough of non-parishioners
—chiefly occurring in Hospitals and in the St. George's Infirmary; and
156 deaths of parishioners of Chelsea occurred outside the Borough in
various public institutions. There were, therefore, 1,104 deaths of
parishioners of Chelsea. These 1,104 deaths are equivalent to a deathrate
for the year of 14.5 per 1,000, as against a death-rate of 15.0
per 1,000 in 1907.
Table III. gives the death-rate of the Home District of Chelsea
Parish, of Chelsea Borough, and of London during the past 18 years.
Table III.
Year.
Chelsea.*
London.
Death-rate.
Death-rate.
1891
22.1
21.4
1892
21.9
20.7
1893
21.6
21.4
1894
17.6
17.8
1895
20.8
19.9
1896
19.0
18.6
1897
17.9
18.2
1898
18.1
18.7
1899
20.0
19.8
1900
18.1
18.7
1901
16.6
17.7
1902
18.0
17.7
1903
15.3
15.7
1904
16.5
16.6
1905
14.9
15.6
1906
15.7
15.7
1907
15.0
15.2
1908
14.5
14.4
* 1891-1900, Chelsea Home District.
The death-rate of 1908 is the lowest as yet recorded in Chelsea.
Zymotic Death-rate.—The death-rate in Chelsea from the seven
principal zymotic diseases was 138 per 1,000 in 1908, the corresponding
rate for London being 163. In 1907 the zymotic death-rate in Chelsea
was 157 per 1,000.