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Notification of Births Act.
During 1929 the number of notifications of live births received
was 2,461. The corrected number of births registered during the
year in Battersea was 2,619. The proportion of notified to registered
births was, therefore, 94.0 per cent.
210 living and 5 still-births of Battersea children born in other
districts were notified from the districts in which these births
occurred.
The number of still births notified during the year was 57 or
2.13 per cent, of the total births registered.
The registration of still-births became compulsory under the
provisions of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926, on
1st July, 1927.
During 1929 there were 118 still births registered in Battersea,
of which 56 were of non-resident, and 62 of Battersea parents. Nine
still births occurring outside the Borough were registered as belonging
to Battersea, making 71 in all, relating to Battersea. This total
represents a still birth-rate of 26.4 per 1,000 births (live and still)
registered. Of the 71 still births 8 (9.9 per cent.) were registered
as illegitimate. 57 still births were notified under the Notification
of Births Acts during the year as belonging to Battersea, 52 from
within and 5 from without the Borough, the number notified
being 80.3 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.