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This gives a marriage rate of 15-4 per 1,000 inhabitants ire
the Borough during the year 1908, as compared with 13 for
1907 and 15-9 for the year 1906.
Births.
The number of births registered during the
year 1908 was 612 as compared with 662, the
average for the preceding ten years. North
Ward, 149; Southward, 62 (10 in Workhouse); East Ward,
168; West Ward, 69; North Sheen Ward, 127; Kew Ward,
37; total, 612. The birth-rate for the year was 17-2 per 1,000
of the population. The average for the Borough during the
preceding ten years was 20.3. There were 27 illegitimate
births during 1908, 10 of these occurring in the Union Workhouse.
4 in the North Ward, 3 in the Southward, 6 in the
East Ward, 2 in the West Ward, and 2 in North Sheen Ward.
The birth-rate for England and Wales during 1908 was 26.5,
for the 76 great towns on the Registrar General's list it was
27-0, and for the 142 smaller towns it was 26.0 per 1,000 of the
population. The remarkable decline in the number of births in
the Borough is evident by studying Table 1 at the end of this
Section. In the year 1901 with a population of 31,800 there
were 707 births registered in the Borough, whereas in 1908,
with a population of 35,415 there were only 612 births.
Deaths-
The total number of deaths registered in the
Borough during 1908 was 462, of these 133
died in the Union Workhouse and Royal
Hospital, 50 of whom belonged to outside districts. Two
patients from Richmond died at Mogden Isolation Hospital, 6
at Brookwood Asylum, one at Kingston, and 5 in London.
With reference to compiling the death returns for the
Borough the instructions of the Local Government Board are
as follows:—
"By the term 'Non-resident' is meant persons brought
"into the district on account of sickness or infirmity, and dying