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births.
5. The number of births was 3295 (corrected for children born
in the Infirmary, Female Hospital, and Wood Street "Home for
Mothers and Babies," whose parents reside outside the Borough),
and the birth-rate 25.5 compared with 27.7 in the previous year,
and with 29.1 the average for the ten years 1897-1906. The rate
for the County of London was 25.8.
6. The following table gives the average birth-rate of each
parish and ward during the years 1901-5, 1906, and 1907, and
for purposes of comparison the corresponding rates of the
neighbouring Boroughs, London, and England. There has been
a great decrease in Plumstead Parish, and a slight increase in
Woolwich. The decrease in the Borough has been much greater
than that in London.