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BIRTHS.
During last year 2,807 births, 1,443 males, 1,364
females, were registered in this Borough against 2,910
in the previous year. Making due allowance for the
increase of the population, the number of births registered
last year was 278 below the average number
registered during the previous 10 years. Adding 128
births which occured outside the Borough, transferred
by the Registrar-General as belonging to Hammersmith,
and deducting 6 births which occurred in this Borough
which are transferred to other districts by the RegistrarGeneral,
the corrected number of births for last year
was 2,929. On the population estimated up to the
middle of the year, i e., 121,766 inhabitants, the corrected
number of births registered was equal to an annual rate
of 24.1 births per 1,000 persons living. The birth rate
in London on the estimated population of London up
to the middle of the year, i.e., 4,521,301 inhabitants,
was equal to an annual rate of 24.8 births per 1,000
persons living. These figures are calculated upon the
corrected number of births registered. Distribution of
the births of children whose parents lately resided
elsewhere has been made. The Registrar-General has
corrected the births by allotting them to the districts to
which the mothers were said to belong.
DEATHS.
During last year 1,927 deaths were registered in
this Borough, 998 males, 929 females, against 1,569 in
the previous year. Making due allowance for the
increase of the population, the number of deaths
registered in the Borough last year was 285 above the
average number registered during the previous 10 years.
Adding 206 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, also 39 deaths of residents reported to me by
the Registrar-General as having occurred in other parts
of England, and deducting 259 deaths of non-residents