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THE BIRTH-RATE.
The total number of Births registered in the Borough of
Lambeth during the year 1905 was 8835. Of the total 8835
births, 4,532 were males, and 4303, females, showing an excess
of 229 males.
Of the total 8835 births registered in the Borough of Lambeth,
378 took place in the Lying-in Hospital (York Road), and of
these, 167 belong to the Borough; whilst 172 took place in the
Workhouse (Brook Street), and of these, 147 belong to the
Borough. Thus, there are 23G births belonging to other districts,
but these may be assumed to counteract in number the births
(amongst Lambethians) that have taken place outside the Borough,
together with any unregistered births. The Lying-in Hospital
and the Workhouse tend to abnormally increase the birth-rates
in Waterloo Road and Lambeth Church Second Districts, and
the necessary corrections are, consequently, made in a footnote
to Table A (see p. 11).
The birth-rate for Lambeth is 28.2 per 1000 inhabitants (30.6
for males, and 26.9 for females; whilst in the various Registration
Sub-Districts the birth-rates work out as shown in Table A,
from which it will be seen that the uncorrected birth-rate in the
Inner Districts is 39.8, and that in the Outer Districts 23.9, per
1000—the corrected birth-rates being respectively 27.5 for the
whole borough, 36.9 for the Inner, and 23.9 for the Outer,
Districts.
Tables B and C show, for comparison, the number of births,
and the birth-rates for 10 years (1891-1900) in the old Parish of
Lambeth.
The birth-rate for Lambeth (Parish and Borough) has been
recently slowly, but steadily, declining. This decline is not
peculiar to Lambeth, nor even to England, but is to be found