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Notification of Births Act.
During 1928 the number of notifications of live births received
was 2,601. The corrected number of births registered during the
year in Battersea was 2,743. The proportion of notified to registered
births was, therefore, 94.8 per cent.
The number of still births notified during the year was 78 or
2.68 per cent, of the total births registered.
202 living and 14 still-births of Battersea children born in other
districts were notified from the districts in which these births
occurred.
The registration of still-births became compulsory under the
provisions of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926, on
1st July, 1927.
During 1928 there were 116 still births registered in Battersea,
of which 44 were of non-resident, and 72 of Battersea parents. 18
still births occurring outside the Borough were registered as belonging
to Battersea, making 90 in all, relating to Battersea. This total
represents a still birth-rate of 31.8 per 1,000 births registered.
Of the 90 still births 7 (7.8 per cent.) were registered as illegitimate.
78 still births were notified during the year as belonging to Battersea,
64 from within and 14 from without the Borough, the number
notified being 86.7 per cent, of the total still births registered.
Notified births are visited and revisited by the Council's
official Health Visitors and the visitors of the Voluntary organisations
included in the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
A weekly return of all births notified is forwarded to the London
County Council, in accordance with the requirements of Sec. 5,
Sub-Sec. 2, of the Notification of Births Act, 1907.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE SCHEME.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme of the Council
includes Municipal and Voluntary effort and the activities of both
are fully co-ordinated. In order to enable the Voluntary Associations
to keep their work efficient and in uniformity with that of the
Municipal Centres and Clinics they receive, in addition to the
grants from the Ministry of Health, an annual contribution from
the Council.