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10
BIRTHS.
The net number of births for St. Pancras registered during 1918 was 3,318,
making the annual birth-rate of 16.8 per 1,000 total population.
The number of births registered as having taken place in the borough was
3,339, and the net figure is obtained by deducting 21, which, according to
information received from the Registrar-General, is the excess of births to
non-parishioners occurring inside the borough over births to parishioners
occurring outside the borough.
In Table 1 (page 63), the corresponding rates for the past ten years will be
found. It will be seen that there was no stay in the fall of the birth-rate,
which bad shown itself during the war, and that the figure for 1918 was
lower than ever. The number of births in the year was 39 per cent, less than
the average for the three years 1911-13. As a result of this decline and of
the increase in the deaths which took place during the year, for the first
time in our records the number of deaths for the borough exceeded the
number of births. This was also the case in regard to the whole of London
and England and Wales, so that during 1918 there was an actual decline in
the population.
657 births occurred in Public Institutions in St. Pancras, equal to 19.7 per
cent. of the total births which took place in the borough.
Illegitimacy.
Of the 3,339 births which were registered in the borough during the
year, 310 or 9.3 per cent., were returned as illegitimate.
Of the 3,318 births to parishioners within and without the borough, 314 or
9.5 per cent. were returned as illegitimate. The corresponding figures for
1917, 1916, 1915, 1914, and 1913 were 7.2, 7.0, 5.4, 4.1 and 4.7 per cent.
respectively.
Notification of Births.
Notifications were received during the year of 3,224 births, including 3,121
live births, or 94 per cent. of the number of births registered.
In the table below the notified births are classified (in Registration SubDistricts
and Wards) according to the person in attendance upon the mother
in her confinement, or where the confinement was in an institution, the
institution.