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The Registrar-General has made arrangements whereby particulars
of those births (of Stoke Newington parents) which occurred outside the
Borough, and were not therefore locally registered, are now transferred
to us, so that for the first time 49 such births have to be added to the
number registered within the Borough in 1911. It was impossible in
former years to make this addition, and so the birth-rate for Stoke
Newington for 1911 must not be taken as comparable with that of
former years, and the increase shown in the birth-rate is not a real one.
The part which the low birth-rate plays in favouring the low
general death-rate of the Borough is duly accounted for in arriving
at the corrected death-rate.
More especially in the population of the Southern part of the
Borough, which embraces many temporary residents of the poorer
classes, is this circumstance of a low birth-rate an important factor
determining a low death-rate.
It may be noted that, in Stoke Newington, excess of the birthrate
over the death-rate for the year 1901 was 8.5; whereas for the
year 1911 (both rates being considerably lower), the figure was 8.2.
During the year the births notified under the Notification of Births
Act have been compared with the births registered by the Registrar
of Births, and the comparison has revealed the fact that the requirements
of the Notification of Births Act are still not fully complied with,
notwithstanding the efforts we have made to /make these requirements
known. It should, however, be added that the excess of registered
births over notified births in Stoke Newington during 1911 was very
small, and that in each case I have taken steps to ascertain the Cause
of the failure of notification and to draw the attention of the responsible
party to his or her legal default.
MORTALITY.
General Mortality.—There were 432 deaths of residents registered
in the Borough, and 202 of residents who died in Public