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Births
I estimate the population of the Borough for the
middle of the year 1896 to be 30,050.
During the year 1895 there have been 954
births registered, giving a birth rate of 317 per
1000. Of these births 493 were males and 461
females.
Deaths.
The deaths were 490, 256 males and 234
females. This gives a death rate of 16,3. This
increase over last year is almost entirely due to the
increase in the number of deaths under 5 years of
age, being 196 instead of 161. The deaths of
persons over 65 years of age amounted to 117,
almost one-fourth of the mortality.
155 children died before reaching the age of one
year, of whom 22 appear to have been illegitimate,
and 41 died under 5 years of age, giving an infantile
mortality of 22.8, or more than one child in five does
not reach the age of 5 years.
The death rate of infants under one year of age
is 162.4 per 1000 of births, which compares very
nearly with the last quarterly return for St Giles',
City of London, Whitechapel and Poplar, instead of
such rates as 114, 105, 123, given for districts more
like our own, viz., Lewisham, Woolwich, and
Plumstead.
It will be useful to enumerate the roads in which
these deaths occurred. I only cite the roads where
the figures were high for the numbers living in the
road.