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excess of those occurring in Bethnal Green to residents
of other localities, making a total of 2,064 births (1,029
males, 1,035 females). The birth-rate for 1929 was,
therefore, 18.6 births per 1,000 population, the lowest
ever recorded in the Borough.
The provisional birth-rate for London is given as
15.7, and for England and Wales as 16.3.
ILLEGITIMACY.
Of the 2,064 births credited to this Borough, 51
were illegitimate, being 21 males and 30 females, and
being 2.4 per cent, of the total number of births.
STILLBIRTHS.
(Seventy-nine stillbirths were brought to notice,
being a proportion of 3.2 per cent, of all births, alive
or dead.
This subject is dealt with in a special note in the
maternity and child welfare section of this report.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered during the year
as having taken place in the Borough was 1,529.
Of these, 270 were of persons whose residence was
not in Bethnal Green, dying in Bethnal Green Institutions
or other places in the Borough.
There were also reported to me 251 deaths of
Bethnal Green persons who died in institutions in other
parts of London or in other parts of England and
Wales.
The foregoing figures give the net number of deaths
for Bethnal Green as 1,510, which is slightly discrepant
from the figure of 1,512 given by the RegistrarGeneral.
The latter figure has, however, been taken