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Visitors and School Nurses for the combined Maternity and Child Welfare and
School Medical Services. It must be definitely understood that it is only those
nurses who will come up to the standards required by both the Ministry and
the Board, who will be amalgamated.
Births.
The number of births notified during 1935 were as follows :—
Live births, nptified by midwives 2,101
,, ,, doctors and parents 359
Stillbirths ,, midwives 98
,, ,, doctors 10
Total 2,568
These figures include births which have taken place in the North Middlesex
County Hospital, both of Edmonton and non-Edmonton residents; excluding
these latter, the notified births of Edmonton residents are :—
Live births, notified by midwives 1,051
,, ,, doctors and parents 355
Stillbirths ,, midwives 42
,, ,, doctors 10
Total 1,458
It must be remembered that births have to be notified to the Medical Officer
of Health within 36 hours; registration of the birth must be made within,
fortv-two davs.

The registered births include those which take place outside the district.