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Notification of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915.
By the Notification of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915, all live
births and stillbirths of seven m,onths and over must be notified
to the Medical Officer of Health within 36 hours.
The number of births notified under the above Acts during
1924 was 1,411 (714 males and 697 females).
In addition, 21 stillbirths (7 males and 14 females) were
notified.
The percentage of births notified by the various responsible
persons was as follows :—
By Medical Practitioners 21.69
By Certified Midwives 44.58
By Parents and others 33.73
Registration Act, 1836.
By the Registration Act, 1836, all live births are registered
with the Registrar of Births within six weeks.
The birth-rate is calculated on births registered, and during
the last year 1,436 (717 males, 719 females) were registered,
giving a birth-rate of 16.2 per 1,000 persons calculated on the net
population, as compared with 1,606 births with a birth-rate of 18.8
per 1,000 persons in 1923.
Infant Mortality.
The number of infants dying within the first year of life was
62, the total number born being 1,436. The infant mortality or
rate of death per l,000 births was, therefore, 43.2.
The infant mortality rate for the district is, strictly speaking,
higher than it should be, from the fact that 2 deaths of babies
in the Girls' Village Homes, Barkingside, are included, although
the children concerned were not born in Ilford.
If the deaths of babies in the Girls' Village Homes are excluded
there remains an infant mortality rate for the district
of only 4T8 per 1,000 births.