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Of the 4,767 births registered, 166 took place in the
Workhouse, and the mothers of 43 of these children had
resided outside the Borough before admission; while the
births of 129 children, whose mothers belonged to Fulham,
occurred in Lying-in Institutions situate in other boroughs;
so that the corrected total for the Borough was 4,853, representing
a rate of 30.5 per 1,000.
The birth-rate of the County of London was 26.7, which
was lower than that recorded in any preceding year.
Among the various Metropolitan Boroughs the birthrates,
after being corrected by distributing the births which
occurred in the chief Lying-in Institutions to the boroughs
in which the mothers had resided previous to admission,
ranged from 16.5 in Hampstead, 16.7 in the City of London,
and 17.2 in Westminster, to 34.2 in Shoreditch, 34.5 in
Bethnal Green, and 35.3 in Stepney.
The following table gives the number of births and the
birth-rates in the various wards corrected by the distribution
of the births occurring in the Workhouse, but exclusive of
the births in Lying-in Institutions outside the Borough:―

Illegitimacy.
The illegitimate births number 263—155 males and 108
females—or 5.3 per cent, of the total births registered in the
Borough.