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BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
Excluding 16 births among non-residents,but including
105 children born of Fulham mothers in lying-in
institutions situate in other boroughs, 4,154 births were
registered, 2,125 of boys and 2,029 of girls, representing
a birth-rate of 26.4 per 1,000 inhabitants, which is the
lowest recorded in Fulham.
The persistent fall of the birth-rate in Fulham during
the last 25 years, which is shared by every part of the
United Kingdom, can be seen on reference to the chart
showing the birth and death rates. Its seriousness, as
affecting the welfare of the community at a time like the
present, may be appreciated by remembering that if the
birth-rate had been the same as it was 20 years ago,
upwards of 1,400 more children would have been born in
Fulham last year.
The birth-rate of the County of London was
24.3 per 1,000, and in the several Metropolitan boroughs
the rates ranged from 10.2 in the City of London, 14.0
in Westminster, and 14.8 in Hampstead, to 31.0 in
Bermondsev, 31.6 in Poplar, and 32.1 in Shoreditch.
The following table gives the number of births and the
birth-rates in the various wards, corrected by the distribution
of the births in Fulham Infirmary to the wards in
which the mothers resided, and by the inclusion of those
occurring in outside Maternity Institutions :—