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The corresponding birth rates for the rest of the country are
attached :—
England and Wales 17.8
London 17.1
Finsbury 21.4
105 great towns 18.2
158 smaller towns 17.7
The number of Finsbury births reported as illegitimate was 61.
The number of deaths in illegitimate children under one year
was three.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACTS, 1907 AND 1915.
The statistics for the last five years are given in the
panying table.
Year
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
Total Births notified
3.510
3,421
3,167
3,362
3,169
Percentage attended by
Doctors
2.4
2.4
3.8
3.5
2.5
Percentage attended by
Midwives
28.4
27.5
29.0
31.2
25.2
Still Births notified
59
51
42
41
47
Births registered
1,934
1,844
1,662
1,754
1,659
The number of Finsbury births notified in 1926 was 1,643.
Notifications were received of 23 sets of twins. The percentage
of births notified by parents was 7.1, by medical men 2.5, by midwives
25.2, by hospitals, infirmaries and nursing homes 21.7, and
by others, chiefly medical students and midwifery students was
43.5 per cent. The mothers of this last group were all attended
gratuitously in their confinements by medical students and student
midwives from various hospitals and institutions. In 1926 the
number of instances in which parents omitted to notify was 57.
To these a printed form was sent drawing attention to the omission.