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Notification of Births.—Of the registered births 2,201 occurred in Kensington, and of this
number 1,984, or 90 per cent., were notified to the Medical Officer of Health within 36 hours, or
at most a few days after their occurrence. The total number of births notified, including still
births which are not registerable, was 2,225. Details are given in the following Table:—
Source of Notification.
Number of Births Notified.
Still Births. Live Births. Total Births.
Midwives 24 1,181 1,205
Parents 3 285 238
Medical Practitioners 19 489 508
Other Persons 11 79 90
Births in the Borough 57 1,984 2,041
Institutions outside the Borough 7 177 184
Total 64 2,161 2,225
Deaths.—The net deaths belonging to the borough numbered 2,474, and were equivalent to
a death rate of 16.3 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 309,
the infantile mortality rate being equivalent to 130 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 60 died, was equivalent to a rate of 408 per 1,000, as compared with
a rate of 112 per 1,000 among those born in wedlock.