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The birth-rate for 1913 is 18.2 per 1,000. The average birth-rate
of the Borough for the years 1901-12 is 21.2 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 1913 is the lowest yet
recorded. The birth-rate for London in 1913 was 24.5 per 1,000.
During the year 1913, 65 births of parishioners were registered as
having occurred in the Chelsea Workhouse, equivalent to 5.4 per cent, of
the total number of births in the Borough, as compared with 4 per cent,
in each of the years 1912 and 1911.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATES FOR 1913.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough was 1,444. Of
this number 743 were deaths within the Borough of non-parishioners—
chiefly occurring in Hospitals, and in the St. George's Infirmary ; and
194 deaths of parishioners occurred outside the Borough in various public
institutions. There were, therefore, 895 deaths of parishioners of
Chelsea. These 895 deaths are equivalent to a death-rate for the year of
13.5 per 1,000, as against 14.8 in 1912. The death-rate for 1913 is
the lowest yet recorded in Chelsea.
Table II. gives the death-rates of the Home District of Chelsea
Parish, of Chelsea Borough, and of London during the past 23 years.

* 1891-1900, Chelsea Home District.