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This comparison, with the comparative figures already given relating to
Edmonton and Middlesex, will indicate very largely what one would expect
to find from a social point of view.
The district is essentially a working-class one as well as a dormitory for
London.

The birth-rate for the year is thus 19 9
That for London is 18 0, and for England and Wales 18 3. The number
of stillbirths notified during the year was 62, of which 30 had Edmonton
addresses; the remainder came from the other districts of the Edmonton
Union and the confinements took place in the Maternity Wards of the North
Middlesex Hospital.
It must be remembered that the Poor Law Union of Edmonton is very
extensive, with a population at the time of the 1921 census of 472,219 folk.
The Maternity Wards of the North Middlesex Hospital have 700 to 800
patients passing through them annually, and all births taking place there are
not of Edmonton residents.
It is unfortunate that the figures given by the Registrar-General in the
quarterly return, No. 308, are misleading. The births for the year are given
as 1,971, evidently including those of non-Edmonton residents ; this gives an
exaggerated birth-rate of 28, whilst the infantile mortality is quoted at 39.