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Births.
3,017 births were registered in the City in the 52 weeks endingJanuary
2nd, 1904. On examination, 41 births were found to be
referable to other districts. Through the courtesy of the Committees of
Management of Endell Street, York Road, and the Queen Charlotte
Lying-in Institutions, and of the Master of the Strand Workhouse at
Edmonton, and the Steward of St. George's Workhouse, Fulham Road, I
have ascertained that in these institutions 209 children were born, the
home address of whose mothers was in Westminster. The net number of
births was, therefore, 3,185, as compared with 3,461 in 1902; the
birth-rate, uncorrected, was 16.8, corrected 17.7 per thousand persons.
The birth-rate for the County of London for 1903 was 28.4, the rate
during the ten preceding years averaged 29.9 per thousand. The birthrate
in England and Wales was 28.4, which is lower than that in any
other year on record; compared with the average of the preceding ten
years, the birth-rate in 1903 shows a decrease of 2.6 per thousand.
Consequent upon differences in sex and age distribution, and the
proportion of married and unmarried persons in the various Wards of
the City, the rates vary widely, from 7 in Pall Mall Ward to 28 in
St. John's Ward.