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STATISTICAL.
BIRTHS.
Registration.—The number of births registered during 1920 was 2,217*, being
725 more than in 1919. Of the children born, l,116were boys and 1,101 girls. The
birth rate per 1,000 of the population was 21.5 as against 14.6 in 1919.

Notifications.—The total number of notifications received during the year under
the Notification of Births Act, 1907, was 4,428 : Live births, 4,234; Still births, 194.
The provisions of the Act are now very generally known, and the necessity for
notifying is not less well recognised 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. 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.
No.
Per cent.
From parents 146 3.3
,, doctors 482 10.9
,, midwives 1,022 23.8
„ other persons 116 2.6
,, hospitals, etc. 2,662 60.0
4,428
Of the total births notified, 194 referred to still-births (107 males and 87 females):
1,849 took place at Queen Charlotte's Hospital; 532 at Middlesex Hospital; 263 at
the Workhouse: and 1,766 were born at home. Of those notified as having
occurred in St. Marylebone, 2,211 belonged to other Boroughs.
*This figure is exclusive of births occurring in the Borough to persons usually non-resident
therein, but includes 223 births which occurred outside the district, and which have been transferred
as belonging to St. Marylebone :— -
Legitimate Males 88
,, Females 81
Illegitimate Males 28
,, Females 26