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During the year 2,116 live births were notified to the Medical Officer of Health. There were also
65 stillbirths notified. Of the 2,181 living and stillbirths notified, 47.5 per cent. were notified by
medical practitioners, 34.5 per cent. by midwives, 2.9 per cent. by parents, and 15.1 per cent. by
medical students or other persons.
A comparison of the Notification Register with the returns supplied by the local Registrars of
Births showed that 97.1 per cent. of the births occurring within the Borough were duly notified.
It will be seen that only a small proportion of births are not notified and are not brought to the notice
of the Medical Officer of Health until they come to be registered within the statutory period of six
weeks. In nearly every case of default a cautionary letter was sent to the person responsible, and in
no instance did the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee consider it necessary to institute legal
proceedings
DEATHS.
Deaths in 1926.—The number of deaths that were registered during the year as having taken
place in the Borough was 2,067.
Of these, 554 were of persons whose residence was not in Paddington, 450 dying in Paddington
Institutions and 104 in other places in the Borough.
There were also reported to the Registrar-General 344 deaths of Paddington persons whose
deaths occurred outside the Borough.
This correction gives the nett number of deaths for Paddington as 1,857, making an annual deathrate
of 12.65.