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BIRTHS.
The total number of Births in the Borough during the year
lias been 2,528, but of these, 47 occurred in the Greenwich Union
Infirmary, the address of the mother being in 27 instances in Deptford.
Deducting these and adding 44 which were transferred from
Lambeth, City of London, Lewisham, Poplar and Woolwich, it
will be seen that the number of strictly Greenwich births for 1913
is 2,545, of which 1,324 were males and 1,221 females.
This corrected figure gives a Birth Rate of 20-09 per 1,000 of
the population, being 0 95 above the average for the last twelve
years, 1901 to 1912, the period since the formation of the Metropolitan
Borough.
Amongst the total number of births registered in the Borough
there were 69 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. 45 of such
births were registered in the East Greenwich District, which
includes the Infirmary of the Greenwich Union.
[n 15 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 54 were similarly allocated to the districts
in this Borough in which the mother ordinarily resided, making
23 of such births belonging to East Greenwich, 18 to West Greenwich,
4 to St. Nicholas, 8 to Charlton and 1 to Kidbrooke.
The Birth Rate for the County of London equals 24.5 per
1,000 of the population. It varied from 9 2 in the City of London,
14.2 in the City of Westminster, 15.1 in Hampstead, and 16.7 in
Holborn, up to 30.7 in Bermondsey, 30.8 in Bethnal Green, 31.0 in
Southwark, 31.5 in Shoreditch and 32.0 in Poplar.
Under the provisions of the Notifications of Births Act, 1907,
intimations have been received from medical men, parents, and
others, with respect to 2,623 births, from which it will be seen