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20 BIRTHS.
Westbourne, last year.s figure for the latter being 6 !) per cent. The contrast between the
proportions recorded in Lancaster Gate, East, Ward in the two years was striking (1.5 in 1912,
8 7 in 1913), but it has to be observed that in both years the proportions are based on very
small numbers, the illegitimate births in the former year numbering 1, and in the latter 5.
Notification of Births.—The Notification of Births Act, 1907, was adopted by the Council in
1908. During the past year 3,088 notifications were received, of which 238 related to births
already notified, so that the nett number of births notified in accordance with the Act was 2,850,
18 more than the number registered within the Borough. Midwives notified 1,112 births (36 0
per cent.), medical practitioners, 992 (32T per cent.), parents, 703 (22.8 per cent.), and other
persons, 281 (91 per cent.). The statement given below shows the changes which have taken
place in the proportions notified bv medical practitioners.

In the statement given below the notifications have been distributed according to the
addresses at which the births were said to have taken place, the total notifications allocated to
each Ward being compared with the births registered locally and allocated to the Wards according
to the home addresses of the parents. The figures are not strictly comparable as a birth
notified at one address may be tabulated after registration in another Ward; but such instances
are not numerous, and the only Ward in which a serious discrepancy has arisen is Westbourne,
owing to the presence of the Workhouse Lying.in Wards. There were altogether 91 births
notified as having taken place in those wards, and one in the Lock Hospital (also in Westbourne
Ward). Twenty.eight births were notified from nursing homes in the Borough.
Queen.s
Park.
Harrow
Road.
Maida
Vale.
Westbourne.
Church.
Lancaster
West.
Gate,
East.
Hyde
Park.
Births registered 338 700 391 413 694 54 51 138
Births notified 336 733 390 472 691 47 58 116
including
Legitimate, living 323 714 373 413 677 44 54 113
Legitimate, dead 13 15 10 8 11 3 4 3
Illegitimate, living — 4 7 50 2 — — —
Illegitimate, dead — — — 1 1 — —
There was a reduction in the percentage of births registered after notification, 4 8 per cent.
of the registered births not having notified last year, as compared with 3.5 in 1912. The progress
of notification, as judged by the percentages of births registered subsequent to notification, is
indicated in the subjoined statement.

Illegitimate Births.
Borough 1910, 74 5. 1911, 93.5. 1912, 94 9. 1913, 910.