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males and 1,903 females. This is 213 below the average for the
last 10 years, and 43 above the figure for 1912.
This total includes 2,548 for Bermondsey, being 46 above that
for 1912, and 154 below the average for the last 10 years; 1,074 for
Rotherhithe, being 9 above the number for 1912, and 16 below the
average for the last 10 years; and 220 for St. Olave, being 12 below
the number for 1912, and 44 below the average for the last 10 years.
In Table 11. of the appendix will be seen the figures for the last
10 years in the three registration sub-districts, and in Table I.
figures for the whole Borough.
The birth-rate for 1913 was 30.8 per thousand persons living,
which is 0.5 above that for 1912 and 0.9 below the average for the
last 10 years. Particulars of rates will be found in annexed Table
A. London is included for comparison.
A new departure with regard to births was made by the
Registrar-General in 1906. The births are corrected by distributing
those which occurred in the chief lying-in hospitals of the Metropolis
to the Boroughs in which the mothers had resided previous to
admission.
Those allocated to Bermondsey in 1913 number 23, and if they
are added to the above total the rate would be 31 .0.