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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 1922
Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1922
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Notification of Births Act, 1907.—Under the provisions of
this Act 6,472 notifications of births were received during 1922.
This total includes notifications from medical practitioners, midwives,
parents and others. It also includes still-births. The total
is 202 more than the number registered by the Registrar of Births.
Still-Births.—Amongst the births notified 149 were stillborn.
This is equal to 2.7 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 1992. | Medical Practitioners | Midwives. | Parents and Others. | Total, | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lire. | Still. | Live. | Still. | Live. | Still. | Live. | Still. | |||||||||
| M. | F | M. | F. | M. | F. | VI . | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Totals | 488 | 445 | 21 | 14 | 1,742 | 1,653 | 45 | 51 | 521 | 474 | 12 | 6 | 2,751 | 2.572 | 78 | 71 |
Illegitimate Births and Birth-rate.—The total number of
illegitimate births registered in the Borough during the year 1922
was 394, but of these, the Registrar-General states that 279
should be transferred to districts outside the Borough, as the
mothers were not Hackney residents, and 24 births which took
place in other districts, should be transferred to Hackney. These
corrections having been made, there remain 139 illegitimate births
amongst Hackney residents. This is equivalent to an illegitimate
birth-rate of 29.3 per 1,000 births.