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The rates in the several registration sub-districts and the Borough were:—
All Souls, 14.8; St. Mary, 15.5; Christ Church, 22.1; St. John, 22.0.
Notifications.—The total number of notifications received during the year under
the Notification of Births Act, 1907, was 3,606: Live births, 3,445; Still births, 161.
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 105 2.9
„ doctors 398 ll.O
„ midwives 702 19.5
„ other persons 265 7.4
„ hospitals, etc. 2,136 59.2
3,606
Of the total births notified, 161 referred to still-births (99 males and 62 females):
1,466 took place at Queen Charlotte's Hospital; 520 at Middlesex Hospital; 150 at
the Workhouse: and 1,406 were born at home. Of those notified as having
occurred in St. Marylebone, 1,667 belonged to other Boroughs.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATES.
The number of deaths registered in 1921 was 1,355. 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 thousand for the year was 12'8.
In the previous year, the rate was 12'7 and the number of deaths 1,299.

District births and deaths for the year ended 31st December, 1921, are given in
the following table. A further table giving the vital statistics of separate localities
for 1921 and the ten preceding years, will be found amongst the Ministry of Health
Tables on page 63.
* A definition of the term " corrected death-rate " will be found on page 9 of the Report for 1912,