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BIRTHS.
The total number of Births in the Borough during the year
has been 2,347, but of these, 75 occurred in the Greenwich Union
Infirmary, the address of the mother being in 27 instances in Deptford,
Lewisham 26, Woolwich and Holloway one each. Deducting
these and adding 72 which were transferred from Lambeth,
City of London, Lewisham and Woolwich, it will be seen that the
number of strictly Greenwich births for 1915 is 2,364, of which
1,125 were males and 1,239 females.
This corrected figure gives a Birth Rate of 24.56 per 1,000 of
the population, being 0.65 below the average for the last fourteen
years, 1901 to 1914, the period since the formation of the Metropolitan
Borough.
Amongst the total number of births registered in the Borough
there were 108 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. 36 of such
births were registered in the East Greenwich District, which
includes the Infirmary of the Greenwich Union.
In 20 cases the mother was ordinarily a resident in the
Borough of Deptford, one each in Woolwich and Holloway and
21 in Lewisham, and accordingly this number of births have been
transferred to those Boroughs.
The remaining 65 were similarly allocated to the districts
in this Borough in which the mother ordinarily resided, making
36 of such births belonging to East Greenwich, 17 to West Greenwich,
6 to St. Nicholas, and 6 to Charlton.
The Birth Rate for the County of London equals 22.6 per
1,000 of the population. It varied from 9.2 in the City of London,
13.4 in the City of Westminster, to 29.99 in Poplar. The Birth
Rate for all England and Wales was 21.9.
Under the provisions of the Notifications of Births Act, 1907,
intimations have been received from medical men, parents, and
others, with respect to 2,280 births, from which it will be seen