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The corresponding birth rates for the rest of the country are
attached:—
England and Wales 14.9
London 13.3
Finsbury 13.8
125 great towns 14.9
148 smaller towns 15.3
The number of Finsbury births reported as illegitimate was 41.
The number of deaths in illegitimate children under one year
was 4. The total number of stillbirths was 29.
Notification of Births.
The number of Finsbury births notified in 1937 was 842.
Notifications were received of 15 pairs of twins. The number of
births notified by parents was 13, by midwives 175, by doctors 11,
by hospitals, infirmaries and nursing homes 400, and by others,
chiefly medical students and midwifery students, 243.
In 1937, the number of instances in which parents omitted to
notify, and where there was no notification from any other source,
was 10. To these a printed form was sent, drawing attention to
the omission. In all cases a satisfactory explanation of the omission
was given.
Stillbirths.
A child is stillborn when it has issued forth from its mother
after the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy and has not at any
time after being completely expelled from its mother breathed or
shown any other signs of life. Such births are required to be
registered under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926,
which came into force on 1st July, 1926,