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During the past two vears 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 38 such births have to be added to the number registered
within the Borough in 1912. It was impossible in previous
years to make this addition, and so the birth-rates for Stoke
Newington for 1911 and 1912 must not be taken as comparable
with those of former years, and the increase shown in the last two
birth-rates is not a real one.
It may be noted that, in Stoke Newington, the excess of the
birth-rate over the death-rate for the year 1901 was 8.5; whereas
for the year 1912 (both rates being considerably lower), the figure
was 8.8.
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 which have been
made to make these requirements known. It should, however,
be added that the excess of registered births over notified births
in Stoke Newington during 1912 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 406 deaths of residents registered
in the Borough, and 181 of residents who died in Public
Institutions outside of the Borough, making a total of 587 deaths.
Of these 308 were of females and 279 were of males.