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During the year, 2,645 births were notified. This is at the
rate of 97% of the registered births, and is, as will be seen from
the following table, the highest ever recorded in the Borough.
1,642 notifications were received from midwives, 343 from
medical practitioners, 153 from the British Hospital for Mothers
and Babies, and 507 from other persons. Cautionary letters
were sent to parents, midwives or medical practitioners in each
case where no notification had been received of a birth subsequently
registered in the Borough.
The following table, No. 1, shows the number of births in each
year since 1901, the birth-rate for the same period for Woolwich,
London, and England and Wales, and the number of live and
still births notified each year since 1908, when the notification
of births became compulsory in Woolwich.

*10 months only in 1908.