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place amongst Chelsea mothers in Lying-in Hospitals and Homes outside
the Borough, the total number of births for the year is 1,238.
The birth-rate for 1911 is 18.8 per 1,000. The average birthrate
of the Borough for the years 1901-10 is 21.7 per 1,000. The
average birth-rate of the Home District of Chelsea Parish for the 5 years
1896-1900 was 24.1 per 1,000. The birth-rate of the past year is the
lowest yet recorded.
During the year 1911, 50 births of parishioners were registered as
having occurred in the Chelsea Workhouse, equivalent to 4 per cent,
of the total number of births in the Borough, as compared with 4.1
per cent. in 1910.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATES FOR 1911.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough was 1,527.
Of this number 709 were deaths within the Borough of non-parishioners
—chiefly occurring in Hospitals and in the St. George's Infirmary; and
216 deaths of parishioners occurred outside the Borough in various
public institutions. There were, therefore, 1,034 deaths of parishioners
of Chelsea. These 1,034 deaths are equivalent to a death-rate for the
year of 15.7 per 1,000, as against 14.2 in 1910.
Table II. gives the death-rates of the Home District of Chelsea
Parish, of Chelsea Borough, and of London during the past 21 years.

*1891-1900, Chelsea Home District.