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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 1919
Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1919
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Notification of Births Act, 1907.—Under the provisions of this
Act 5,155 notifications of births were received during 1919. This
total includes notifications from medical practitioners, midwives,
parents and others. It also includes still-births. The total is
407 more than the number registered by the Registrar of Births.
Still-Births.—Amongst the births notified 123 were still-born.
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.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT, 1907.
| Year 1919. | 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. | 578 | 522 | 16 | 15 | 1,679 | 1,554 | 49 | 31 | 390 | 309 | 6 | 6 | 2,647 | 2,385 | 71 | 52 |
Illegitimate Births and Birth-rate.—The total number of
illegitimate births registered in the Borough during the year 1919
was 596; but of these, the Registrar-General states that 448
should be transferred to districts outside the Borough, as the
mothers were not Hackney residents, and 34 births which
took place in other districts, should be transferred to Hackney.
These corrections having been made, there remain 182 illegitimate
births amongst Hackney residents. This is equivalent to an
illegitimate birth-rate of 43.9 per 1,000 births.