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Births
5. The number of births was 3524 (corrected for children
born in the Infirmary and the Wood Street "Home for Mothers
and Babies" whose parents reside outside the Borough), and the
birth-rate 27'7 compared with 28'2 in the previous year, and with
29'7, the average for the ten years 1896-1905. The rate for the
County of London was 26'6.
6. The following table gives the average birth-rate of each
Parish and Ward during tlie years 1901-5, and the rate for 1906,
and for purposes of comparison, the corresponding rates of the
neighbouring Boroughs, London, and England, There has been
a decrease in Plumstead and Eltham Parishes, and a slight
increase in Woolwich. The decrease in the Borough has been
practically the same as that in London.