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Hornsey 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936 (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 within 36 hours, in
addition to being registered within a period of six weeks after
birth.
SUMMARY OF BIRTHS NOTIFIED; 1944.
| Male. | Female. | Total. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live births | 832 | 711 | 1,543 | ||
| Still births | 21 | 24 | 45 | ||
| 853 | 735 | 1,588 | |||
| The births were notified:— | |||||
| By doctors | 12 | ||||
| „ Borough Midwives | 362 | ||||
| „ Alexandra Maternity Home | 201 | ||||
| „ Other Midwives | 302 | ||||
| „ Hospitals | 171 | ||||
| „ Others | 515 | ||||
| 1,563 | |||||
| Not notified (information extracted from Registrar's returns) :— | |||||
| Live births | 23 | ||||
| Still births | 2 | ||||
| 25 | |||||
| 1,588 | |||||
| Of this number there were:— | Live births | Still births. | |||
| Occurring in the Borough and transferred to other districts | 186 | 9 | |||
| Belonging to Hornsey and occurring in Hospitals, etc., outside the distric | 664 | 22 | |||
The 1,393 nett number of notified births belonging to Hornsey were divided among the districts of the Centres, as follows:-
| Live births | Still births. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town Hall Centre .. | 600 | 18 | 618 | |
| Burgoyne Road Centre | 300 | 6 | 306 | |
| Church Road Centre | 212 | 5 | 217 | |
| Coldfall Centre | 244 | 8 | 252 | |
| 1,356 | 37 | 1,393 | ||
| Births attended by Borough Midwives:— | ||||
| Miss Andrews | 113 | |||
| Miss Hughes | 61 | |||
| Miss Matthews | 87 | |||
| Mrs. Thompson | 28 | |||
| Miss Jones | 63 | |||
| Miss Buckeridge | 9 | |||
| Mrs. Jamison | 1 | |||
| 362 | ||||