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There is not much room for debauchery here. The borough,
however, is not by any means made up of people earning only this sum,
for there are many residential streets and roads in which live inhabitants
holding positions of responsibility in different parts of London.
At the same time, poverty and disease are akin, thus calling for
attention to the conditions such of our fellow men live under.
Births.
Births. Birth rate
per 1,000.
2108 18.2
The total number of births registered in the Borough was 1,881,
and of these 70 were transferred to other districts, as the permanent
addresses of the parents were outside this Borough. Similarly, 297
births occurring outside of the Borough, in maternity hospitals, were
transferred to Deptford, making a total of 2,108 births in all belonging
to Deptford. Of these, 1,050 were males and 1,058 were females.
This figure gives a birth-rate of 18.2 per 1,000 of the estimated population,
as compared with 18.8 for the year 1925.
The birth-rate for England and Wales for 1926 was 17.8.
„ „ the 105 County Boroughs and Great Towns was 18.2
„ „ the 158 Smaller Towns was 17.6
„ „ the County of London was 17.1
The rate for Deptford was therefore higher than the average for
the country as a whole. Table I shows the number of births and
birth-rates for the past ten years.