Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Infant Mortality of Illegitimate Infants .—The following Table, No. 40, shows the number of deaths of illegitimate infants and infant mortality rate per 1,000 illegitimate births in Willesden since 1904:—
Table No. 40.
year. | No. of deaths of illegitimate infants tinder one year. | No. of deaths of illegitimate infants under one year per 1,000 illegitimate births. |
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1904 | 50 | 463 |
1905 | 50 | 467 |
1906 | 22 | 176 |
1907 | 27 | 216 |
1908 | 38 | 404 |
1909 | 30 | 231 |
1910 | 20 | 82 |
1911 | 43 | 312 |
1912 | 22 | 169 |
1913 | 19 | 204 |
1914 | 22 | 218 |
1915 | 26 | 190 |
Notification of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915. —The Notification of Births Act, 1907, was adopted in this district in 1908, and the following Table, No. 41, shows the number of births notified in each complete year since its adoption, together with certain other particulars:—
Table No. 41.
Total number of births notified. | Number of stillbirths notified. | Number of births registered. | |||
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Attended by doctors. | Attended by mid wives. | Total. | |||
1909 | 2220 | 1528 | 3748 | 95 | 4172 |
1910 | 2072 | 1318 | 3390 | 79 | 3923 |
1911 | 2266 | 1428 | 3694 | 88 | 4001 |
1912 | 2324 | 1347 | 3671 | 92 | 4075 |
1913 | 2273 | 1277 | 3550 | 104 | 4037 |
1914 | 2207 | 1232 | 3439 | 118 | 4115 |
1915 | 2067 | 1125 | 3192 | 83 | 3775 |