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From the above Table it will be seen that the greatest decrease in
population has been in Church Ward, whilst Stanley Ward has had the
smallest. The effect of the demolitions of small houses in Hans Town
and Cheyne Wards has been to increase the relative proportions of
females to males, as the larger houses remaining have a relatively larger
number of females (servants) than the working-class property that has
been pulled down. In Eoyal Hospital Ward the larger number of females
in 1911 is probably accounted for by the removal of the Duke of York's
School to Dover.
The estimated population of the Borough for the middle of the year,
1912, is 65,397.

The above Table relates to births registered in the District.
Excluding 19 births of non-parishioners, and including 69 births taking
place amongst Chelsea mothers in Lying-in Hospitals and Homes outside
the Borough, the total number of births for the year is 1,210.
The birth-rate for 1912 is 18•6 per 1,000. The average birth-rate
of the Borough for the years 1901-11 is 21•4 per 1,000. The average
birth-rate of the Home District of Chelsea Parish for the 5 years 18961900
was 24•1 per 1,000. The birth-rate of 1912 is the lowest yet
recorded. The birth-rate for London in 1912 was 25•0 per 1,000.
During the year 1912, 48 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, the same proportion as in
1911.
DEATHS AND DEATH-BATES FOB 1912.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough was 1,449. Of
this number 668 were deaths within the Borough of non-parishioners
—chiefly occurring in Hospitals, and in the St. George's Infirmary; and
186 deaths of parishioners occurred outside the Borough in various public
institutions. There were, therefore, 967 deaths of parishioners of
Chelsea. These 967 deaths are equivalent to a death-rate for the year of
14•8 per 1,000, as against 15 7 in 1911.
Table III. gives the death-rates of the Home District of Chelsea
Parish, of Chelsea Borough, and of London during the past 22 years.