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Notification of Births.—Two thousand four hundred and twenty-two live births were
notified to the Medical Officer of Health within 36 hours or at most a few days after their
occurrence; also 62 still births and 246 births belonging to the Borough, but which occurred in
institutions outside, were notified. The total number of birth notifications received was 2,730.

Deaths.—The net deaths belonging to the borough numbered 2,413, and were equivalent to
a death rate of 15.2 per thousand, as compared with a death rate of 14.3 in the ten years 1901-10.
The mortality in the several wards has already been shown in Table A. The principal causes of
death in the several age periods of life are set out in Table III., Appendix.
Infantile Mortality.—The deaths among infants under the age of one year numbered 270,
the infantile, mortality rate being equivalent to 102 per 1,000 births. The following Table shows
the mortality among infants in the several wards:—

The principal causes of deaths in the first four weeks and in the later months of infancy will
be found in Table IV., Appendix. The same table shows that the mortality amongst illegitimate
infants, of whom no less than 46 died, was equivalent to a rate of 179 per 1,000, as compared with
a rate of 93 per 1,000 among those born in wedlock.