View report page

8
BIRTHS.
Registration. The number of births registered during 1911 was 2,375,* being
180 under the number for 1910. Male births numbered 1,194, and female 1,181.
The birth rate per 1,000 was 20'2. The accompanying table compares the rates in
the several registration sub-districts with those of 1910.
1910. 1911.
All Souls 21.5 16.0
St. Mary 12*1 14.4
Christ Church 27.3 29.7
St. John 20'4 19.2
Notifications. The total number of notifications received during the year was
4,090. As heretofore,persons failing to make notification within thirty-six hours were
communicated with, but, as was expected, as the fact of the adoption of the Act
becomes known, the number of failures to notify diminishes. The number of letters
sent was quite small, and of the few who failed to notify it was quite clear that none
did so wilfully. It was not considered necessary to institute proceedings in any
case.
The following are the sources of the notifications received during the year, in
some instances duplicates coming to hand from different sources :—
1911. 1910.
From parents 564 or 14'06 per cent. 768 or 18'93 per cent.
„ doctors 491 „ 12'24 „ 387 ,, 9'54 „
„ midwives 774 „ 19'30 „ 854 „ 21'06 „
„ other persons 38 „ 0'95 „ 27 „ '66 „
„ hospitals, etc. 2,223 „ 55'45 „ 1,970 „ 48'58 „
Of the total births notified 58 referred to still-births (33 males and 25 females);
1,746 took place at Queen Charlotte's Hospital ; 384 at the Middlesex Hospital; and
1,723 were born at home. Of those notified as having occurred in St. Marylebone,
1,755 belonged to other Boroughs.
Legitimate males 565
„ females 519
Illegitimate males 331
„ females 340
Total 1,755
* This figure is inclusive of births occurring in the Borough to persons usually non-resident therein,
but includes 62 births which occurred outside the district and which have been transferred.
Males 29
Legitimate Females 17
Males 6
Illegitimate Females 10
Total 62