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Births.
The number of births registered during the year 1905
was 696, as compared with 661, the average for the
preceding ten years. Of these 342 were males and 354 were
females. The birth rate for the year was 20.5 per 1,000 of the
population. The average for the Borough during the preceding ten
years was 21.2. There were 35 illegitimate births during 1905,
21 of these occurring in the Union Workhouse, 8 in the North
Ward, 4 in the East, 1 in the West Ward, and 1 in the Kew Ward.
The birth rate varied in the different Wards, being 26 4 in the
North, 10.6 in the South, 24 2 in the East, 14 4 in the West, and
17 in the Kew Ward. The birth rate for England and Wales
during 1905 was 27.2, being lower than the rate in any year on
record; for the 76 great towns on the Registrar General's list it
was 28 2, and for the 141 smaller towns it was 26.9 per 1,000 of the
population.
Deaths.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough
during 1905 was 487; of these, 140 died in the Union
Workhouse and Royal Hospital, 60 of whom belonged to outside
districts. Four patients from Richmond died at Mogden Isolation
Hospital, and 8 at Brookwood Asylum. Correcting for the above,
results in a total of 439 deaths for the Borough, which gives an
annual rate of 12.9 per 1,000 of the population living.
The mean annual death rate of the Borough for the preceding
ten years was 13 7. The death rate for England and Wales in 1905
was 15.2, the 76 great towns 15.7, and Rural England and Wales
14.9. The death rate varied in the different Wards. Owing to the
returns from the Registrar not giving the previous addresses of the
persons dying in the Union Workhouse, 51 deaths at that Institution
are placed in the South Ward, but in all probability none, or very
few, actually belong to that Ward. The death rate for the North
Ward was 13.2, South Ward 18, or without the Workhouse deaths
10.2, East Ward 11.8, West Ward 10, and Kew Ward 10 per 1,000
of the population.