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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Notification of Births Act, 1907.—Under the provisions of
this Act 5,569 notifications of births were received during 1921.
This total includes notifications from medical practitioners, midwives,
parents and others. It also includes still-births. The total
is 132 more than the number registered by the Registrar of Births.
Still-Birtlis.—Amongst the births notified 131 were stillborn.
This is equal to 2.3 per cent. of those notified. A table is
here given showing the number of notifications received, with
other details in connection with the same.
NOTIFICATIONS of BIRTHS ACT, 1907.
| Year 1921. | Medical Practitioners | Midwives. | Parents and Others. | Total, | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live. | Still. | Live. | Still. | Live. | Still. | Live. | Still. | |||||||||
| M. | F | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Totals | 611 | 554 | 16 | 13 | 1.773 | 1.584 | 52 | 36 | 460 | 456 | 8 | 6 | 2844 | 2.594 | 76 | 55 |
Illegitimate Births and Birth-rate.—The total number of
illegitimate births registered in the Borough during the year 1921
was 387, but of these, the Registrar-General states that 271
should be transferred to districts outside the Borough, as the
mothers were not Hackney residents, and 30 births which took
place in other districts, should be transferred to Hackney. These
corrections having been made, there remain 143 illegitimate births
amongst Hackney residents. This is equivalent to an illegitimate
birth-rate of 25.8 per 1,000 births.