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Hampstead 1926
Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Notification of Births Act, 1907.
All births occurring in the Borough must be notified to the
Medical Officer of Health within 36 hours. This is in addition to
registration with the Registrar of Births.
In the majority of those cases where the notification was not
made until after 36 hours had elapsed, I drew the attention of the
responsible person to the omission.
The following statement shows the source of information, etc., of the births notified during the year. As live births have to be notified much sooner than they are registered, the number notified differs from the number registered. The registration of still births has not yet been made compulsory.
| Notified within 36 hours. | Notified after 36 hours. | Total Notified. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births. | Still Births. | Live Births. | Still Births. | Live Births. | StillBirths. | |
| Notified by midwives | 508 | 11 | - | - | 508 | 11 |
| ,, parents | 117 | l | 51 | - | 168 | 1 |
| ,, doctors | 402 | 20 | - | - | 402 | 20 |
| „ nurses and others | 163 | 4 | 6 | — | 169 | 4 |
| 1190 | 36 | 57 | — | 1247 | 36 | |
Deaths.
The "recorded" death-rate is the rate obtained by calculating the
number of "net" deaths per 1000 of the population. From the total
deaths of civilians registered is deducted the number who were nonresident
persons, and, after subtracting these, the number of deaths of
civilian Hampstead residents who died outside the Borough is added.
The total net deaths during 1926 was 928 or 106 per 1000 of the
population, as compared with 923 in the preceding year. These deaths
were distributed among the various Wards as follows:—No. 1 (Town)
134, No. 2 (Belsize) 138, No. 3 (Adelaide) 107, No. 4 (Central) 108,
No. 2 (West End) 153, No. 6 (Kilburn) 186, and No. 7 (Priory) 102.