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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Acton 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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Table: Births Act had been instrumental in the transference to the death register of children who would formally have been buried as still-born, I asked the Cemetery Superintendent if he would kindly give me the number of burials of still-births buried in the Acton Cemetery, and the following Tables gives the number of still-births buried since 1903:—

Births Act had been instrumental in the transference to the death register of children who would formally have been buried as still-born, I asked the Cemetery Superintendent if he would kindly give me the number of burials of still-births buried in the Acton Cemetery, and the following Tables gives the number of still-births buried since 1903:—

190438
190537
190640
190752
190845
190944
191037

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As usual the mortality amongst illigitimate children was
excessive. Out of 36 children born out of wedlock, 13 died
before reaching the age of 12 months. These figures represent
an infantile mortality of 361 per 1,000 births.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT, 1907.
One thousand four hundred and eighteen births and 36 still
births were notified during the year.
Four hundred and forty-seven of these were notified by a
doctor, 930 by a midwife and 41 by the fathers of the children.
One hundred and nine births were registered that had not
been notified within the statutory period.
Two prosecutions were instituted by the Council for noncompliance
with the Act. One of them was against a doctor.
The case was dismissed, as the magistrates held that the doctor
had reasonable grounds for assuming that the birth had been
notified.
The other prosecution was against. the father of the child
and a fine was enforced.