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THE BIRTH-RATE.
The total number of Births registered in the Borough of
Lambeth during the year 1907 was 8650. Of the total 8650
births, 4396 were males, and 4254 females, showing an excess
of 142 males.
Of the total 8650 births registered in the Borough of Lambeth,
718 took place in the Lying-in Hospital (York Road), and of
these, 187 belong to the Borough; 220 took place in the Workhouse
(Brook Street), and of these, 200 belong to the Borough;
whilst 458 took place in the Maternity Hospital (Jeffrey's Road),
and of these 106 belong to the Borough. Thus, there are 903
births belonging to other districts. The Lying-in Hospital, the
Workhouse and the Maternity Hospital tend to abnormally
increase the birth-rates in Waterloo, Kennington and Stockwell
Districts respectively, and the necessary corrections are, consequently,
made in a footnote to Table A (see p. 13).
The birth-rate for Lambeth is 27.2 per 1000 inhabitants (29T
for males, and 25.4 for females); whilst in the various Registration
Sub-Districts the birth-rates work out as shown in Table A,
from which it will be seen that the uncorrected birth-rate in the
Inner Districts is 34.3, and that in the Outer Districts 21.5, per
1000—the corrected birth-rates being respectively 25.1 for the
whole borough, 30.4 for the Inner, and 21.5 for the Outer,
Districts.
Tables B and C shew, for comparison, the number of births,
and the birth-rates for 10 years (1891-1900) in the old Parish of
Lambeth.
The birth-rate for Lambeth (Parish and Borough) has been
recently slowly, but steadily, declining. As has been previously
noted, this decline is not peculiar to Lambeth, nor even to
England, but is to be found in nearly all civilised countries,
and is greater in reality than would appear on the surface;
for it must be remembered that pari passu with this declining
birth-rate is a declining death-rate.