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9
THE BIRTH RATE.
The total number of Births registered during the year 1914 is
8,188. Of the total 8,188 births, 4,166 are males, and 4,022 females
showing an excess of 144 males.
Of the total 8,188 births registered, 774 took place in the Lying-in
Hospital (York Road), and of these 210 belong to the Borough;
135 took place in the Workhouse (Brook Street), and of these 112
belong to the Borough; whilst 574 took place in the Maternity
Hospital (Jeffrey's Road), and of these 153 belong to the Borough.
Thus, there are 1,008 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 27.6 per 1,000 inhabitants
(29.4 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 un-corrected birth-rate
in the Inner Districts is 35.2, and that in the Outer Districts 22.1
per 1,000—the corrected birth-rates (i.e., excluding (a) NonLambethian
births and (b) all Institutional births) being lespectively
(a) 24.2 and (b) 22.6 for the whole Borough, (a) 29.6 and (b) 26.4
for the Inner, and (a) 20.3 and (b) 19.8 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 even to England,
but is to be found in nearly all civilised countries.