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STATISTICAL.
BIRTHS.
Registration.—The number of births registered during 1922 was 1,679*, being
260 less than in 1921. Of the children born, 871 were boys and 808 girls. The
birth rate per 1,000 of the population was 15'9 as against 18.4 in 1921.
The rates in the several registration sub-districts and the Borough were:—
All Souls, 14.2 ; St. Mary, 11.3; Christ Church, 20.5; St. John, 13.9.
Notifications.—The total number of notifications received during the year under
the Notification of Births Act, 1907, was 3,813: Live births, 3,632; Still births, 181.
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 86 2.2
,, doctors 321 8.4
,, midwives 696 18.3
„ other persons 206 5.4
„ hospitals, etc. 2,504 65.7
3,813
Of the total births notified, 181 referred to still-births (102 males and 79 females):
1,795 took place at Queen Charlotte's Hospital ; 579 at Middlesex Hospital; 130 at
St. Marylebone Home: and 1,232 were born at home. Of those notified as having
occurred in St. Marylebone, 1,941 belonged to other Boroughs.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATES.
The number of deaths registered in 1922 was 1,451. 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 othfer 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-ratet per thousand for the year was 13.7.
In the previous year, the rate was 12.8 and the number of deaths 1,355.
* This figure is exclusive of births occurring in the Borough to persons usually non-resident
therein, but includes 185 births which occurred outside the district, and which have been transferred
as belonging to St. Marylebone:—
Legitimate Males 71
,, Females 72
Illegitimate Males 20
,, Females 22
† A definition of the term "corrected death-rate" will be found on page 9 of the Report for 1912.