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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

Finsbury 1925

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1925

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The number of Finsbury births reported as illegitimate was 52.
The number of deaths in illegitimate children under one year
was five.

Table: NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACTS 1907 AND 1915. The statistics for the last five years are given in the accompanying table.

NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACTS 1907 AND 1915. The statistics for the last five years are given in the accompanying table.

Year192019211922192319241925
Total Births notified4,2003,6943,5103,4218,167 3.83,362
Percentage attended by Doctors3.52.62.42.43.5
Percentage attended by Midwives31.343.428.427 529-031.2
Still Births notified705559514241
Births registered2,5401,9731,9341,8441,6621,754

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The number of Finsbury births notified in 1925 was 1,778.
Notifications were received of 17 sets of twins. The percentage
of births notified by parents was 6.2, by medical men 3.8, by midwives
29, by hospitals, infirmaries and nursing homes 17, and by
others, chiefly medical students and midwifery students was 44
per cent. The mothers of this last group were all attended
gratuitously in their confinements by medical students and student
mid-wives from various hospitals and institutions. In 1925 the
number of instances in which parents omitted to notify was 142.
To these a printed form was sent drawing attention to the omission.
The East Finsbury Maternity and Infant Welfare Centre, 162,
Lever Street.—
The work and classes at the Maternity and Child Welfare
Centre, 162, Lever Street, in 1925, were as follows:—
Monday Mothers' clinic, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Dental clinic, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., alternate
weeks.