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SECTION 7.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
33. GENERAL.
The Council's Scheme under the Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 1918, has
been extended during the year, by the opening early in 1931 of a further session
at the St. Albans Clinic.
The question of clinie accommodation is one which you have at present before
you and is one in which I know you are deeply interested. I hope it will be possible
to arrange at an early date for all the clinic work to be done in permanent buildings.
54. REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS.
By the Registration Act, 1836, all live births must be registered within a period
of six weeks.
The actual number of live births within the district during the year was 905,
the net total of 947 being obtained by adjustment of " transferred " notifications.
The births registered included 488 males and 459 females. There were 21
illegitimate births, or 2.2 per cent, of the total. In comparison with 1930, 148 more
births were registered daring the year, an increase equivalent to 18.5 per cent.
By the Notification of Births Act, 1907, all live births and still-births of seven
months and over are required to be notified to the Medical Officer of Health within
36 hours. Of the total live births all except 27 or 2.9 per cent. were notified. In
addition, 5 still-births were not notified.

0f the total live births within the district during the year, 634 or 70.05 per cent,
were attended by midwives, the remainder being attended by medic al practitioners.