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THE BIRTH RATE.
The total number of Births registered in the Borough of
Lambeth during the year 1910 was 8373. Of the total
8373 births, 1293 were males, and 1080 females, showing
an excess of 213 males.
Of the total 8373 births registered in the Borough of Lam.
beth, 863 took place in the Lying.in Hospital (York Road),
and of these 258 belong to the Borough; 183 took place in
the Workhouse (Brook Street), and of these 161 belong to
the Borough; whilst 504 took place in the Maternity Hospital
(Jeffrey's Road), and of these 96 belong to the
Borough. Thus, there are 1035 births belonging to other
districts. The Lying.in Hospital, the Workhouse and the
Maternity Hospital tend to abnormally increase the birthrates
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 25.6 per 1,000 inhabitants
(27.7 for males, and 23.7 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 32.9, and that
in the Outer Districts 20.0 per 1,000—the corrected birthrates
(i.e., excluding Non.Lambethian births) being respectively
22.4 for the whole Borough, 20.6 for the Inner, and
18.9 for the Outer, Districts.
Tables B and C show, 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 Borcugh) has been
recently slowly, but steadily, declining. As has Leen previously
noted, this decline is not peculiar to Lambeth, nor
B