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BIRTHS.
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BIRTHS.
The births registered in the Borough during the year numbered 3,074, viz., 1,586 of
boys and 1,488 of girls, and were equivalent to a ("crude") rate of 20*55 per 1,000
persons, the lowest rate on record. The decrease in the number of births recorded year by
year during the past eleven years is indicated in Table I. Appendix. Last year there were
20 twin births, including 8 of mixed sexes and 21 of single, viz., 11 of males and 10 of
females. Ninetv-three of the births occurred in the Workhouse.
*
The total given above includes the births of 49 children of parents not residing in the
Borough. In outlying boroughs 181 births occurred, the parents of those children being
residents of the Borough. The nett total of births for the \ear was 3,200* (1,065 of boys and
1,541 of girls) 80 fewer than the corresponding total for 1900, and equivalent to a " corrected "
rate of 21*43 per 1,000 persons, as compared with 22*10 in the preceding year.
In Table 2 will be found the rates for the last two years for the Borough and for each
Ward thereof. The lowest rate for the past year was that of Lancaster Gate, East, Ward
(8*21) and the highest that of Church Ward (27*58). The rates for Westbourne (18*42) and
Lancaster Gate, West, (in 1900. (See also fable II., Appendix).
TABLE 2.
Births.
Paddington.

The birth rate for England and Wales was 26*3 per 1,000 persons, 0*8 below that for
1900, and the lowest on record. Compared with the mean rate for the preceding ten years,
last year's rate shows a decline of 1*7 per 1,000. According to the figures given in the
Quarterly Reports of the Registrar-General (see Table 3), the local rate was 1*54 below the
* The Registrar-General made the nett total of births 3,258, and the corrected rate 21*8.