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The Registrar General's returns for the year showed the
following registered births, after transferable adjustments had
been made:—
Live Births Stillbirths Total
1,042 24 1.066
All rate calculations are based on these official figures.
The total number of births notified under Section 203 of the
Public Health Act, 1936, occurring in the Borough, between 1st
January, 1948, and 5th July, 1948, when the National Health
Service Act, 1946, came into operation, were as follows:—
Live Births Stillbirths Total
802 6 808
The number of maternity cases in the Borough during the
same period, which were attended by Municipal Midwives. is as
follows:—
Domiciliary Confinements.
Municipal Midwives attended: —
(a) As Midwives 230
(b) As Maternity Nurses (with a Doctor) 53
283
PREMATURE BIRTHS.
Details of premature births (birth weight of 5½ lbs. or less),
which occurred in Bromley during the first half of the year are
as follows:—
(a) Domiciliary Births 5
(b) Institutional Births 18
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Number of non-residents whose particulars were transferred
to other authorities 10
Number of premature babies born out of the area whose
mothers normally reside in the Borough —
Total number of premature babies notified during the first
half of the year whose mothers normally reside in the
Borough 13
23
STILLBIRTHS.
The Registrar General's returns for the year show that the
number of stillbirths registered for the area was 24 (after adjustment
for inward and outward transfers), which represents a
stillbirth rate of 22.5 per 1,000 (live and still) births, and 0.38 per
1,000 population,