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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

Greenwich 1926

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1926

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Table: NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACTS, 1907. The following table gives the number and character of the intimations received respecting births in the Borough:—

NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACTS, 1907. The following table gives the number and character of the intimations received respecting births in the Borough:—

191819191920192119221923192419251926
Total Number of Births notified in each year1,7352,0852,7142,5642,2572,3482,2452,2572,096
(a) Attended by Midwives9901,1591,4941,4521,4941,5911,5631,6681,660
(b) Attended by Doctors7459261,2201.112773757649589436
Numbers of Still Births notified in each year445978525350323249
Number of Births registered in each year1,7531,9682,6482,3662,1852,2762,2582,1082,027

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Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations,
1926.—These Regulations came into force on the 1st October,
1926, and all medical practitioners practising in the Borough
were notified as to the general conditions of the Regulations.
Fuller details describing the arrangements made by the Council
are given under Section 6 of this Report.
Nine cases of Puerperal Fever were notified during the
year, one of which unfortunately proved fatal. There did not
appear to be any common source of infection amongst these
oases, as they occurred in different districts and at different times.
Since the 1st October there was only 1 case of Puerperal
Pyrexia notified.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—Under the 1914 Regulations
an obligation rested upon certified midwives to notify any cases
in which they were in attendance and which they had reasonable
grounds for supposing were suffering from Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
unless such cases had been notified already by a medical
practitioner. On the 1st October, 1926, new Regulations came
into force, the obligation for notifying all cases of Ophthalmia
Neonatorum resting solely upon the medical practitioner in
attendance upon the case, midwives not being required to notify
any such cases.