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Births.
Births Registered.
Births Notified.
Gross.
Out.
Added.
Net.
Gross.
Alive.
Stillborn.
Notified by
Doctor.
Midwife.
1909
2,520
39
270
2,751
1,612
1,571
41
609
492
1910
2,365
49
276
2,592
1,674
1,621
53
632
561
1911
2,110
60
311
2,361
1,562
1,507
55
578
483
1912
2,131
49
264
2,349
1,501
1,469
34
564
451
The following table shows the distribution of births (including
infants born in institutions outside the City) according to wards :—
Conduit 21
Grosvenor 109
Knightsbridge St. George 131
Victoria 709
St. Margaret 114
St. John 712
Knightsbridge Hamlet 75
St. Anne 156
Regent 91
Pall Mall 18
Great Marlborough 66
Charing Cross 22
Covent Garden 121
Strand 4
The birth-rate, uncorrected, was 13.5, corrected 14.8 per 1,000 persons.
The corrected birth-rate for the five years 1902—6 was 17.6, and for
the five years 1907—11, 15.8 per 1,000.
The birth-rate for the County of London for 1912 was 24.5, the
rate during the preceding ten years averaged 25.8 per 1,000. Westminster
had the lowest rate of any Metropolitan City or Borough.
The birth-rate in England and Wales was 23.8; the average of the
preceding ten years was 27.2.
A comparison of the corrected and uncorrected birth-rates, and of
the death-rates of infants under one year of age, is made in the
tables following this part of the Report.
In the following wards: St. John, Hamlet, Conduit, St. Anne,
Pall Mall, Great Marlborough and Covent Garden, there was an increase
in the number of births. This, however, is counterbalanced by a decrease
in all the other wards except Charing Cross, which was the same as
in 1911.
Fiom the figures given below it will be seen that the decrease in
1912 is in the illegitimate birth.
The birth-rate calculated on the number of married women in
Westminster, distinguishing the legitimate and illegitimate, shows more