§ Sir W. DAVISONasked the Minister of Health the birth rate per 1,000 in each of the London boroughs for the year 1927?
§ Sir K. WOODThe following are the figures:
Birth rate per 1,000 population in Metropolitan Boroughs. Borough. 1927 City of London 8.8 Inner and Middle Temples 3.6 Battersea 16.6 Bermondsey 19.9 Bethnal Green 20.0 Camberwell 15.6 Chelsea 13.4 Deptford 16.8 Finsbury 19.1 Fulham 15.1 Greenwich 16.4 Hackney 15.7 Hammersmith 15.6 Hampstead 11.9 Holborn 12.0 Islington 17.5 Kensington 15.0 Lambeth 16.2 Lewisham 15.1 Paddington 15.6 Poplar 19.8 St. Marylebone 13.3 St. Pancras 15.5 Shoreditch 20.7 Southwark 19.0 Stepney 18.3 Stoke Newington 14.0 Wandsworth 13.5 Westminster 10.1 Woolwich 15.5 Administrative County of London 16.1