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The illegitimate bliths numbered 24 : 11 males and 13 females.
During the past three years 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 34 such births had to be added to the number registered
within the Borough in 1913. It was impossible in previous
years to make this addition, and so the birth-rates for Stoke
Newington for the last three years must not be taken as comparable
with those of former years.
It may be noted that the excess of the birth-rate over the
death-rate for the year 1901 was 8.5; whereas for the year 1913
(both rates being considerably lower), the figure was 8.9.
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 (947 as against 1,112)
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.
In many cases 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.