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leading to a tendency on the part of the population of this as well as other central boroughs to
go to seek residences further out.
The same method of estimating has been adopted as that employed in former years.
Births.
The total number of births registered in the Borough for the 52 weeks ended December
28th, 1907, was 4013, consisting of 1,992 males and 2,021 females. This is 410 below the
average for the last 10 years, and 18 below the figure for 1906.
This total includes 2.674 for Bermondsey, being 9 below that for 1906, and 232 below
the average for the last 10 years ; 1,110 for Rotherhithe, being 21 above the number for 1906,
and 71 below the average for the last 10 years, and 229 for St. Olave's, being 30 below the
number for 1906 and 107 below the average for the last 10 years.
Note.—This reduction of births in St. Olave's is due to our being able to allocate births
in Parish Street Workhouse to their proper districts.
In Table II. of the appendix will be seen the figures for the last ten years in the three
registration sub-districts, and in Table I. figures for the whole Borough.
The birth rate for 1907 was 31.4 per thousand persons living, which is 2.3 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 1907 number 41, and if they are added to the
above total the rate will be 31.7.
Table A—Birth Rates.
Year.
Bermondsey.
Rotherhithe.
St. Olave's.
Whole
Borough.
London.
38.68
35.8
30.0
1897
37.48
31.53
32.97
35.3
1898
36.73
32.85
29.5
35.2
1899
36.67
32.38
34.55
29.4
1900
34.07
30.56
39.67
33.5
28.6
1901
35.42
31.73
32.73
29.0
34.1
33.92
1902
34.70
30.47
33.4
28.5
31.12
1903
29.10
30.83
32.4
28.4
1904
33.52
28.27
40.69
32.4
27.8
1905
35.35
29.53
30.64
33.3
27.1
1906
32.83
31.08
31.4
26.5
28.48
34.79
28.5
Average for years
1897-1906
30.49
33.7
34.58
1907
32.76
29.06
25.6
28.45
31.4
From this table it will be seen that there is an increase in the birth rate in Rotherhithe
and a slight reduction in Bermondsey and St. Olave's but the rate for the whole Borough
remains the same.
Marriages.
The total number of marriages in the Borough in 1907 was 1,147, being 48 above the
number for 1906, and equal to the average for the last 10 years.
In Table VIII. of the Appendix will be found particulars of numbers and rates in
the three registration sub-districts. The numbers have been supplied by the Superintendent
Registrar.
Deaths.
In Table IV. of Appendix will be found the Local Government Board tables dealing
with deaths in the Borough. No alteration has been made by the Board in the Table of
Infantile Mortality. The extended table of causes of death initiated in 1904 will also be found
in the Appendix.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough for the 52 weeks ending December
28th, 1907, was 1856, which is 123 less than in 1906, and 455 less than the average for the last
10 years.
When this figure is corrected by exclusion of deaths of non-parishioners occurring in the
district, and the inclusion of deaths of parishioners occurring outside the district, the number is
raised to 2338. This is 191 less than in 1906, and 394 less than the average for the last
10 years.
The annexed table shows the distribution of deaths in Quarters, together with the
corresponding Quarters of 1906.
Much the largest number of deaths occurred in the first Quarter of the year as compared
with the last Quarter of the year in the previous two years. This, however, may be considered
a normal occurrence.
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