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males and 1,848 females. This is 262 below the average for the
last 10 years, and 85 below the figure for 1913.
This total includes 2,502 for Bermondsey, being 46 below that
for 1913, and 174 below the average tor the last 10 years ; 1,032 for
Rotherhithe, being 51 below the number for 1913, and 62 below the
average for the last 10 years ; and 232 for St. Olave, being 12 above
the number for 1913, and 25 below the average for the last 10 years.
In Table II. of the Appendix will be seen the figures for the last
10 years in the three registration sub-districts, and in Table I.
figures for the whole Borough.
The birth-rate for 1914, was 30·2 per thousand persons living,
which is o-6 below that for 1913 and 1·3 below the average for the
last 10 years. Particulars of rates will be found in annexed I able
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 1914 number 35 and if they
are added to the above total the rate would be 30·5.
TABLE A—BIRTH-RATES.
Year.
London
Whole
Borough.
Bermondsey.
Rotherhithe.
St. Olave.
1904
33·52
32·4
28·27
27·8
40·69
1905
35·35
29·53
30·64
33·3
27.1
1906
32·83
28·48
31·08
31·4
26·5
1907
32·76
28·45
31·4
25·6
29·06
1908
32·58
32·1
25·2
33·53
29·02
1909
33·65
28·02
32·99
31·9
24·2
1910
32·73
27·27
35·53
31·3
23·6
1911
30.79
30.43
28.48
30·5
24·8
1912
30·48
30·65
27·08
30·3
24·5
1913
31·14
31·15
26·10
30·8
2 4·5
Average For
years
1904-1913
29·18
25·3
31·37
31·5
32·67
30·6
28.2
30.2
29·9
24·3
1914