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* Re Illegitimate Cases.—In Tables B and C the 53 deaths of Illegitimate
Infants under 3 months are omitted as the search for the birth-registration of
these was so often unsuccessful for the following reasons:—
(1) Untraceable name or address, or no previous address was given when
the death was registered.
(2) Though the death had occurred in St. Pancras the birth had taken
place outside St. Pancras in a Lying-in Hospital or elsewhere.
(3) Though the deaths of newly-born babies (9 cases) found in the streets
of St. Pancras were registered, yet the births of these had not been
registered.
†Re Legitimate Cases.—Of the 372 registered deaths, search for birth-registration
was successful in only 311 cases. The reasons why the search was
unsuccessful in the remaining 61 cases were:—
(1) The address where the death had occurred was different from the one
at which the birth had taken place, because
(a) The baby may have died in one house of St. Pancras, but
have been born in another house of St. Pancras.
(b) The baby may have died within St. Pancras but have been
born outside St. Pancras (when naturally the birth would
be registered outside).
(e) Occasionally the death is registered from an incorrect
address and the birth from a correct one, or vice versa.
(2) Of the deaths registered as occurring in "outlying" institutions, it is
often impossible to find the birth registration, as neither the christian
nor surname of the baby or parent is given in the Death Returns
(with rare exceptions).
(3) It is possible that if a death takes place at, say, 5 weeks of age and
before the birth has been registered, the parents may sometimes
neglect to register the birth at all.
Search was made into the 311 deaths of legitimate infants under 3 months
of age (whose birth registration could be found), with the following results:—
See Tables B. and C.