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UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
There were no uncertified deaths registered in St. Pancras in 190/; in 1006,
1905, 1904, and 1903 the numbers were 2, 6, 0, and 0.
INQUESTS HELD.
In the Coroner's Court—General cases 387
„ „ Poor Law cases 24
Elsewhere in St. Pancras 411
PUBLIC MORTUARIES.
Number of bodies deposited in the General Mortuary 415
,, „ ” Infectious „ 12
427
PROGRESS IN THE PREVENTION OF INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Registration and Notification of Births.
The Registrar-General reports in his Annual Summary for the year 1906,
London, p. x?ii., that " The number of births registered in the year 1906 in
the seven principal lying-in institutions situated within thy Metropolis were as
follows:—Borough of St. Marylebone, Queen Char otte's Lying-in Hospital,
1646; Hackney, Salvation Army Maternity Hospital, 234; Holborn, British
Lying-in Hospital, 506; Finsbury, City of London Lying-in Hospital, 622:
Stepney, East End Mother's Home, 414; Lambeth, General Lying-in Hospital,
602; and Clapham Maternity Hospital, 421." These births were distributed
with approximate accuracy to the several Boroughs in which the mothers
resided previous to admission, and this course is now followed in each Annual
Summary. The effect upon St. Pancras in 1907 was to increase the birth-rate
from 23.1 per 1000 of population to 24.7.
“An Act to provide for the early Notification of Births" received the Royal
Assent on the 28th August, 1907. On the 2nd October, 1907,1 recommended
in a Report that the Act should be adopted in St. Pancras. The Act was
considered on the 2nd October and again on the 23rd October, when it was
resolved to recommend to the Borough Council that instructions be given for
the necessary procedure for the adoption of the Act in the Borough to be
forthwith taken, and this resolution was adopted by the Borough Council on
the 30th October. Pursuant to Statute, a month's notice was given, and the
resolutions necessary for the adoption of the Act came before the Borough
Council on the 18th December, 1907, when their consideration was adjourned.
Accordingly, another month's notice was given, and the resolutions necessary
for the adoption of the Act came before the Borough Council again on the 5th
February, 1908, when they were adopted, together with a report dated Tuesday,
28th January, 1908, in which I set out in detail the reasons for its adoption.