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Notifications.—The total number of notifications received during the year under
the Notification of Births Act, 1907, was 3,901, which is considerably lower than
the number for 1913, viz., 4,185. The provisions of the Act are now very generally
known, and the necessity for notifying is not less well recognized than that for
registration. Failures to notify within 36 hours of birth, as required, were comparatively
few. In such cases as there was failure, a perfectly reasonable
explanation was forthcoming, and it was not considered necessary to take proceedings
against any of the parties.
The main sources of the notifications are set out below and, for purposes of
comparison, the figures for the three previous years are also shown. The figures, it
may be noted, refer to notifications and not to births. In some cases duplicate
notifications, from different sources, were received with regard to the same birth.
1911. 1912. 1913. 1914.
From parents 564 or 13.7 per cent. 509 or l2.l per cent. 783 or l8.7 per cent. 405 or l0.7 per cent.
„ doctors 491 „ 14.1 „ 592 „ 14.1 „ 500 „ 11.9 „ 589 „ 15.6 „
„ midwives 774 „ 18.6 „ 780 „ 18.6 „ 758 „ 18.1 „ 791 „ 20.7 „
„ other persons 38 „ .4 ,, 18 ,, .4 „ 4 „ .09 „ 13 „ .3 „
,, hospitals, etc. 2,223 „ 54.6 „ 2,286 ,, 54.6 „ 2,140 ,, 51.1 „ 2,103 ,, 55.7 „
Of the total births notified, 140 referred to still-births (68 males and
72 females); 1,713 took place at Queen Charlotte's Hospital; 388 at Middlesex
Hospital; 2 at the Samaritan Hospital; and 1,670 were born at home. Of those
notified as having occurred in St. Marylebone, 1,797 belonged to other Boroughs,
as follows:—
Legitimate Males 575
,, Females 547
Illegitimate Males 337
„ Females 338
1,797
DEATHS AND DEATH RATES.
The number of deaths registered in 1914 was 1,605. This figure is inclusive of
persons who, though normally resident in the Borough, died in institutions outside,
but exclusive of persons, who, though they died in St. Marylebone, were ordinarily
resident in other parts of England or Wales. Deaths of persons ordinarily resident
outside the borders of England and Wales are included in the St. Marylebone figures,
if they occur in the Borough.
The corrected death-rate* per 1,000 for the year was 14.9.
In the previous year, the rate was exactly the same and the number of deaths
1,627. In 1912 the rate was 14.8 per 1,000, and in 1911, 16.3.
*A de6nition of the term ''corrected death-rate" will be found on page 9 of the Report for 1912.