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STATISTICAL.
BIRTHS.
Registration.— The number of births registered during 1925 was 1,496*, being
4 more than in 1919 and 35 less than in 1924. Of the children born, 775 were boys
and 721 girls. The birth rate per 1,000 of the population was 14.1, as against
14.5 in 1924.

Notifications.— The total number of notifications received during the year
under the Notification of Births Act, 1907, was 3,699. 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 41 1.4
„ doctors 238 6.3
„ midwives 725 20.3
„ other persons 195 6.0
„ hospitals, etc. 2,505 66.0
3,699
Of the total births notified, 175 referred to still-births (86 males and 89
females): 1,962 took place at Queen Charlotte's Hospital; 391 at Middlesex Hospital;
47 at the St. Marylebone Home; and 1,194 were born at home. Of those
notified as having occurred in St. Marylebone, 1,997 belong to other Boroughs.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATE.
The number of deaths registered in 1925 was 1,257. This figure is inclusive of
person; who, though normally resident in the Borough, died in institutions outs, de,
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.
* This figure is exclusive of births occurring in the Borough to persons usually non-resident
therein, but includes 225 births which occurred outside the district, and which have been transferred
as belonging to St. Marylebone :—
Legitimate Males 91
,, Females 73
Illegitimate Males 31
,, Females 30