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The birth-rate, uncorrected, was 12.2, corrected 14.1 per 1,000 persons.
The birth-rate for the County of London for 1914 was 243, and
for England and Wales, 23.6.

There were 39 stillborn children, whose births are not subsequently
registered; 17 other stillbirths were known but not notified, making
56 in all. The proportion of live births notified to births registered
was 72.4 per cent. The proportion notified in previous years was 64.8
per cent. in 1909, 68 in 1910, 70.9 in 1911, 71.1 in 1912 and 71.2 in
1913.
In addition, information was received through the County Council of
births coming to their knowledge in their work of supervising midwives,
and from some of the Medical Officers of Health of boroughs in which
there is a maternity hospital (births occurring in such an institution
would be notified and registered in the borough in which it is situate).
The Registrar-General also supplies a more complete list of births in
outlying institutions and of those which have to be excluded.
The mothers and infants were visited after the twelfth day by the
Council's visitor, Mrs. Watkinson, in co-operation with the voluntary
health visitors in cases where advice appeared desirable. Of the 2,157
births, 1,879 (87.1 percent.) were visited besides the 56 cases of stillbirths;
47 appeared to be above the standard and were only once visited ; 19 did
not desire to be visited, 30 were not found (these occur among the
registered births where several weeks intervened between the birth
and registration, in which time the parents had moved). A certain
number of children born in the Infirmary or in Lying-in-Hospitals from
Rescue Homes do not return to Westminster and so therefore cannot
be visited.
There were 1,110 infants who were under one year of age at the
end of 1913, and these also have been visited in 1914. After making
allowance for removals and deaths there were 1,535 infants on the
visiting list at the end of the year.