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Notification of Births Act.

1,615 of these births or 54.2 per cent. took place in Hospitals
and Private Nursing Homes.
Still Births.
The number of still births registered during 1933 was 106,
the same number as in the previous year. Of these 3 were
illegitimate births.
Still births are notifiable after the twenty-eighth week of
pregnancy. Information is not available as to the number of
pregnancies terminated before that date, but there is reason to
believe that the number of such cases is far from negligible.
Deaths.
The deaths registered during 1933 numbered 3,005, and equalled
a rate of 12.33 per 1,000 of the population. The number of deaths
was slightly in excess of the 1932 figure, when 2,983 deaths of
Camberwell residents were registered.
The number of deaths of children under one year of age was
160, and was 74 fewer than in 1932. Thus the Infantile Mortality
Rate for the year under review was the extremely low one of
49 per 1,000 births, an unprecedented figure. The number of
illegitimate deaths of children under one year was 10, as compared
with 12 in the previous year.
The deaths from tuberculosis, all forms, totalled 245, as
compared with 248 in 1932 and 268 in 1931.
The deaths from diseases of the heart and circulatory system
show an increase from 808 in the preceding year to 881 in 1933.
This group was responsible for the largest number of deaths,
representing 29 per cent, of the total.