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Births.
2,897 births were registered in the City in the, 52 weeks ending
December 31st, 1904. On examination, 43 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 200 children were born the
home address of whose mothers was in Westminster. The net number of
births was, therefore, 3,054, as compared with 3,185 in 1903, and
3,461 in 1902; the birth-rate, uncorrected, was 16.3, corrected 17.2
per 1,000 persons. The birth-rate for the County of London for
1904 was 27.9, the rate during the ten preceding years averaged 29.6
per 1,000. The birth-rate in England and Wales was 27.9, which
is lower than that in any other year on record; compared with the
average of the preceding ten years, the birth-rate in 1904 shows a
decrease of 1.3 per 1,000.
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. The decrease in actual numbers is
particularly noticeable in Conduit, Regent, Great Marlborough and
Strand Wards.

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