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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
, In Table III. is shown the number of births, males and females,
the birth-rate, and the rate of natural increase for each sub-district,
and for the whole Borough.

The birth-rate in all the sub-districts, with the exception of
Tooting, was lower than in the year 1904. In my Report for 1904 it
was stated that this rate for Tooting was probably calculated on too
large a population, and that the low rate for that year was due to this
circumstance. In 1905 the rate has been calculated from a smaller
and in all probability a more correct population, with the result that
the birth-rate is 38.60, compared with 29.26 in 1904, and 35.81 in
1903.
That the birth-rate in Tooting is high is shown by the fact that
the number of births, 891, is a considerable increase as compared with
1904, when the number of births was 772.
In all the other sub-districts the actual number of births registered
is smaller than in 1904, although there has been an increase in the
population.
The lowest birth-rate occurred in Putney, and the highest in
Tooting.
The following Table shows the birth-rate in the Borough, the five
sub-districts, London and England and Wales, for the past ten years
and for the year 1905, compared with the average. These rates are