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BIRTHS.
Registration.—The number of births registered during 1932 was 1,055,* being
12 less than in 1031. Of the children born, 550 were boys and 505 girls. The
birth rate per 1,000 of the population was 10.97, as against 11.4 in 1931.
STATISTICAL.

Notifications.—The total number of notifications received during the year
under the Notification of Births Act, 1907, was 3,332; live births, 3,152; still
births, 180. The total notifications in 1931 was 3,514. 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 proceeding's against anv of the parties.

Of the total births notified, 180 referred to still-births (100 males and 80
females); 2,091 took place at Queen Charlotte's Hospital; 79 at Middlesex Hospital;
161 at the St. Marylebone Home; and 550 were born at home. Of those
notified as having occurred in St. Marylebone, 2,246 belong to other Boroughs.
Of the 180 still-births only 30 (13 males and 17 females) were to St. Marylebone
mothers.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATES.
The number of deaths registered in 1932 was 1,265. 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.