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BIRTHS.
During last year 3,020 births were registered in
this Borough against 3,110 in the previous year.
Making due allowance for the increase of the population,
the number of births registered last year was
298 below the average number registered during the
previous 10 years. On the population estimated up
to the middle of the year, i.e., 120,679 inhabitants, the
number of births registered was equal to an annual
rate of 25.0 births per 1,000 persons living. The birthrate
in London on the estimated population of London
up to the middle of the year, i.e., 4,721,217 inhabitants,
was equal to an annual rate of 26.6 births per
1,000 persons living. These figures are calculated
upon the actual number of births registered in the
Borough and in London. No distribution of the
births of children whose parents lately resided elsewhere
has been made. Last year, for the first time,
the Registrar General has corrected the births by
allotting them to the districts to which the mothers
were said to belong. He gives the corrected births of
Hammersmith as 3,112. I have no data at my disposal
for so correcting the births in this Borough.
DEATHS.
During last year 1,591 deaths were registered in
this Borough, against 1,419 in the previous year.
Making due allowance for the increase of the population,
the number of deaths registered in this Borough
last year was 121 below the average number registered
during the previous 10 years. Adding 355 deaths of
Residents of this Borough, which took place in general
hospitals and other public institutions in other
Boroughs of London, in London County Lunatic
Asylums and Metropolitan Imbecile Asylums, and
deducting 173 deaths of non-Residents which occurred,
146 at the West London Hospital, 21 at Nazareth