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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Notification of Births.
1,898 notifications of live births were received during
the year.
145 notifications (including stillbirths) were received
from medical practitioners and parents and 1,255 from
midwives.
Information was received of 556 births outside this
area. The following list shows where most of these took
place:—East End Maternity Hospital 271, Oldchurch
Hospital 131, City of London Maternity Hospital 26,
Plaistow Maternity Hospital 21, The London Hospital
18 and Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford 10.
The Notification of Births Acts have been repealed
by Section 203 of the Public Health Act, 1936.
Illegitimate births accounted for 2.58 per cent. of
the total births.
Stillbirths.
29 male and 28 female stillbirths were notified, the
corresponding figures for registration being 28 and 32.
The rate per 1,000 of total population registered was
0.56, the rate for England and Wales being 0.60. The
percentage of illegitimate stillbirths to the total was
1.67 compared with a percentage of illegitimate to total
births of 2.58.
The stillbirths which occurred in the district, the
alleged causes and other associated details are shown in
the table.
Infant Mortality.
98 infants under one year of age died during the
year, giving an infant mortality rate of 50.51 per 1.000
live births, compared with that of 53 for England and