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the birth rate.
The total number of Births registered in the Borough of
Lambeth during the year 1908 was 8906. Of the total 8906
births, 4531 were males, and 4375 females, shewing an excess
of 156 males.
Of the total 8906 births registered in the Borough of Lambeth,
803 took place in the Lying-in Hospital (York Road),
and of these 193 belong to the Borough; 194 took place in
the Workhouse (Brook Street), and of these 179 belong to
the Borough; whilst 472 took place in the Maternity Hospital
(Jeffrey's Road), and of these 134 belong to the Borough.
Thus, there are 963 births belonging to other districts. The
Lying-in Hospital, the Workhouse and 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. 10).
The birth-rate for Lambeth is 27.7 per 1000 inhabitants
(29.8 for males, and 25.9 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 35.6, and that in the
Outer Districts 21.6 per 1000—the corrected birth-rates (i.e.,
excluding Non-Lambethian births) being respectively 24.7
tor the whole Borough, 29.9 for the Inner, and 20.7 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.