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VIOLENT DEATHS.
Violence was the cause of 163 deaths during the year; in the three
preceding years the numbers were 146, 189, and 173.
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
There was 1 uncertified death registered in St. Pancras in 1908; in 1907,
1906, 1905, and 1904, the numbers were 0, 2, 6, and 0.

PROGRESS IN THE PREVENTION OF INFANT MORTALITY.
Registration and Notification of Births.
The Registrar-General, in his Annual Summary for the year 1908, p. xxv.,
reports in reference to London:— "Birth-rates in Metropolitan Boroughs. In
order to arrive at a reasonably accurate statement of the birth-rate in the
several Metropolitan Boroughs, it is necessary in the first instance to distribute
the births occurring in the chief institutions treating maternity cases. The
institutions dealt with are enumerated in the footnote,* and it has been found
practicable to distribute all but a very few of the births to the Boroughs in which
the mothers Previously resided."
The effect upon St. Pancras in 1908 was to increase the birth-rate from 23.4
to 24.6 per 1000 of population, as corrected by the Registrar-General.
The Borough Council resolved to adopt the Notification of Births Act, 1907,
subject to the statutory consent of the Local Government Board. On the 4th
March, 1908, the Board approved of the adoption of the Act within the
Borough of Saint Pancras, and appointed the 9th March as the date of the
coming into operation of the Act.
* Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, Salvation Army Maternity Hospital, British Lying-in
Hospital, City of London Lying-in Hospital, East End Mothers' Home, General Lying-in Hospital,
Clapham Maternity Hospital, Woolwich Home for Mothers, London Hospital, French Hospital,
Workhouse Establishments of Hackney, Wandsworth and Greenwich, and the Holborn Workhouse
in Shoreditch.