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BIRTHS.
The total number of Births in the Borough during the
year has been 2,381, but of these, 66 occurred in the Greenwich
Union Infirmary, the address of the mother being in 43
instances in Deptford. Deducting these and adding 43 which
were transferred from the City of London, Hackney, Lambeth
and Woolwich, it will be seen that the number of
strictly Greenwich births for 1911 is 2,381, of which 1,167
were males and 1,214 females.
This corrected figure gives a Birth Rate of 24.89 per
1,000 of the population, being 1.29 below the average for
the last ten years, 1901 to 1910, the period since the formation
of the Metropolitan Borough.
Amongst the total number of births registered in the
Borough there were 82 in which the name of the father was
not registered and therefore not given in the return; accordingly,
these births may be presumed to be of an illegitimate
character. 61 of such births were registered in the East
Greenwich District, which includes the Infirmary of the
Greenwich Union.
In 23 cases the mother was ordinarily a resident in the
Borough of Deptford, and accordingly this number of births
have been transferred to that Borough.
The remaining 59 were similarly allocated to the districts
in this Borough in which the mother ordinarily resided,
making 28 of such births belonging to East Greenwich, 22
to West Greenwich, 2 to St. Nicholas, and 7 to Charlton.
The Birth Rate for the County of London equals 24.8
per 1,000 of the population. It varied from 11.6 in the City
of London, 14.8 in the City of Westminster, 14.9 in Hampstead,
18.9 in Kensington, up to 31.0 in Poplar, 31.2 in
Bermondsey, 31.4 in Stepney, 31.5 in Bethnal Green, and
31.9 in Shoreditch.