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Rate for London Rate for England
Year. Birth-rate. generally. and Wales.
1901 21.6 29.0 28.5
1902 22.0 28.5 28.6
1903 21.5 28.5 28.4
1904 22.3 28.0 27.9
1905 20.9 27.1 27.2
1906 21.2 26.6 27.0
1907 20.5 25.8 26.3
1908 20.2 25.4 26.5
1909 19.5 24.4 25.6
1910 18.8 23.6 24.8
1911 20.7 25.0 24.4
1912 20.4 24.7 23.8
1913 22.0 24.5 23.9
1914 20.4 24.6 23.6
The illegitimate births numbered 24; 13 males and 11 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 42 such births had to be added to the number registered
within the Borough in 1914. It was impossible, prior to
3 years ago, 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 1914
(both rates being considerably lower), the figure was 8.1.
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 (871 as against 1,029)
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.