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From Table No. 4 it will be observed that the number of births of
Chelsea Infants in Hospitals and elsewhere outside Chelsea accounted
for 46.0 per cent. of the total births. In the preceding year the percentage
was 36.1.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT, 1907.
Under the above Act, all live and still births occurring after the 28th
week of pregnancy must be reported within 36 hours to the Medical
Officer of Health of the district in which the birth takes place. This
information is extremely valuable, as it enables the Health Visitor to
exercise supervision of the mother and child shortly after confinement.
During the year 875 births, including stillbirths, were notified as
occurring in Chelsea. Of this number, in 561 instances the parents were
resident in other Boroughs, and information of such births was transmitted
to the Medical Officer of Health concerned. Information was received
of 290 births amongst Chelsea mothers in Lying-in hospitals and elsewhere
outside the Borough.
The total number of notified Chelsea births from all sources was 604.
The following table indicates the source of notification of the 875
births notified in the Borough:—