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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 193G (Sec. 203).
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS.
All live births and still births of seven months and over must
be notified to the Medical Officer of Health w ithin 36 hours, in
addition to being registered within a period of six weeks after
birth.
Tlie number of births notified under the Acts during 1937
was: —
Male. Female. Total
Live births 679 660 1,339
Still births 15 22 37
694 682 1,376
Tlie births were notified: —
By Doctors 133
,, Borough Midwives 203
,, other Midwives 318
,, Hospitals 203
,, parents 11
,, others 477
1,345
Unnotified (from Registrar's return): —
Live births 26
Still births 5
31
1,376
Of this number there were: —
Live births. Still births.
Occurring in the Borough and transferred
to other districts 179 3
Belonging to Hornsev and occurring
in Hospitals, &c., outside the
district 615 19
Tlie 1,194 nett number of notified I lirths belonging to
Hornsev were divided among the districts of the Centres as
follows: —