[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough].

  • St. Marylebone (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1931
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    31 STATISTICAL. BIRTHS. Registration.—The number of births registered during 1930 was 1,247,* being 14 more than in 1929, and 249 less than in 1925. Of the children born, (538 were boys and 009 girls. The birth rate per 1,000 of the population was 12.1, as against 11.9 in 1929 and 14.1 in 1925. The accompanying table contains a comparison of the rates in the several registration sub-districts and the Borough as a whole for 1930, with those of each of the years since 1925 :— 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 All Souls 10.4 9.0 9.0 9.7 9.4 10.1 St. Mary 12.8 10.1 10.6 10.7 9.7 10.4 Christ Church 17.9 18.0 19.1 16.4 15.8 14.1 St. John's 141 12.6 12.6 13.2 12.3 18.8 The Borough 14.1 12.7 13. 2 12.6 11.9 12.1 Notifications.—The total number of notifications received during the year under the Notification of Births Act, 1907, was 3,5.30; live births, 3,325; still births, 205. The total notifications in 1925 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 per fectly 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 notifica tions, from different sources, were received with regard to the same birth. No. Per cent. From parents 21 0.6 ,, doctors 146 4.1 „ mid wives 523 14.8 „ other persons 269 7.6 „ hospitals, etc. 2,571 72.9 3,530 100.0 Of the total births notified, 205 referred to still-births (118 males and 87 females) : 2,130 took place at Queen Charlotte's Hospital; 85 at Middlesex Hos pital ; 205 at the St. Marylebone Home ; and 959 were born at home. Of those notified as having occurred in St. Marylebone, 1,875 belong to other Boroughs. Of the 205 still-births only 43 (21 males and 22 females) were to St. Marylebone mothers. DEATHS AND DEATH RATES. The number of deaths registered in 1930 was 1,171. 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. * This figure is exclusive of births occurring in the Borough to persons usually non-resident therein, but includes 297 births which occurred outside the district, and which have been transferred as belonging to St. Marylebone:— Legitimate Males 121 „ Females 104 Illegitimate Males 31 ,, Females ,, 41
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