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during the previous year. Adding 122 births which
occurred outside the Borough, transferred by the
Registrar-General as belonging to Hammersmith, and
deducting 2 births which occurred in this Borough
which are transferred to other districts by the RegistrarGeneral,
the corrected number of births for last year
was 2,708. On the population estimated up to the
middle of the year 1914, i e., 124,750 inhabitants, the
corrected number of births registered was equal to an
annual rate of 21.7 births per 1,000 persons living.
The birth rate in London on the estimated population
of London up to the middle of the year 1914, i.e.,
4,518,021 inhabitants, was equal to an annual rate of
22.5 births per 1,000 persons living. These figures
are calculated upon the corrected number of births
registered.

DEATHS.
During last year 1,872 deaths were registered in
this Borough, 983 males, 889 females, against 1,676 in
the previous year. The number of deaths registered
in the Borough last year was 196 above the number
registered during the previous year. Adding 261
deaths of residents of this Borough, which took place
in general hospitals and other public institutions in
other Boroughs of London, London County Lunatic