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10
THE BIRTH RATE.
The total number of Births registered during the year
1912 is 8,168. Of the total 8,168 births, 4,163 are males,
and 4,005 females, showing an excess of 158 males.
Of the total 8,168 births registered, 887 took place in
the Lying-in Hospital (York Road), and of these 211 belong
to the Borough; 189 took place in the Workhouse (Brook
Street), and of these 163 belong to the Borough;
whilst 543 took place in the Maternity Hospital
(Jeffrey's Road), and of these 160 belong to the
Borough. Thus, there are 1,085 births belonging to
other districts. The Lying-in Hospital, the Workhouse and
the Maternity Hospital tend to abnormally increase the
birth-rates in Lambeth Church, Kennington and Stockwell
Districts respectively, and the necessary corrections are,
consequently, made in a footnote to Table A.
The birth-rate for Lambeth is 27.4 per 1,000 inhabitants
(29.3 for males, and 25.7 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 37.4, and that
in the Outer Districts 20.1 per 1,000—the corrected birthrates
(i.e., excluding (a) Non-Lambethian births and (b)
all Institutional births) being respectively (a) 23.8 and (b)
22.0 for the whole Borough, (a) 30.3 and (b) 26.7 for the
Inner, and (a) 19.0 and (b) 18.6 for the Outer, Districts.
Tables B and C show, for comparison, the number of
births, and the birth-rates, for 10 years (1901-1910) in the
Borough.
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