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NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACTS, 1907 & 1915.
All live births and still births of seven months and over must
be notified to the Medical Officer of Health within 36 hours, in
addition to being registered within a period of six weeks after
birth.
The number of births notified under the Acts during 1935
was:—
Male. Female. Total
Live births 668 587 1,255
Still births 20 15 35
688 602 1,290
The births were notified:—
By Doctors 135
„ Borough Midwife 149
„ other Midwives 363
„ Hospitals 161
„ parents 27
„ others 419
1,254
Unnotified (from Registrar's return):—
Live births 34
Still births 2
36
1,290
Of this number there were:— Live births. Still births.
Occurring in the Borough and transferred
to other districts 181 2
Belonging to Hornsey and occurring
in Hospitals, etc., outside the
district 503 23
The 1,107 nett number of notified births belonging to
Hornsey were divided among the districts of the Centres as
follows:—