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The corresponding birth rates for the rest of the country are
attached:—
England and Wales 15·1
London 13·0
Finsbury 13·0
126 great towns 15·0
148 smaller towns 15.4
The number of Finsbury births reported as illegitimate was 39.
The number of deaths in illegitimate children under one year
was 2. The total number of stillbirths was 38.
Notification of Births.
The number of Finsbury births notified in 1938 was 849, of
which 37 were stillbirths. Notifications were received of 10 pairs
of twins. The number of births notified by parents was 7, by
midwives 204, by doctors 11, by hospitals, infirmaries and nursing
homes 398, and by others, chiefly professional assistants, 229.
In 1938 the number of instances in which parents omitted to
notify, and where there was no notification from any other source,
was 6. 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.