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the Female Hospital, and the Wood Street Home for Mothers
and Babies, whose parents reside outside the Borough, and
births in outlying institutions added on). The birth-rate
20.9 compares with 22.0 in the previous year, and with 25.3,
the average for the ten years 1905-14. The rate for the
County of London was 22.6.
Of the 2,815 births, 81 were illegitimate.
Notification of Births. 2,445 live births were notified under
the Notification of Births Act (1,240 males, 1,183 females,
22 not stated). This is at the rate of 87 per cent, of the
registered births, compared with 93, 91, 94, 92 and 89 per
cent, in the five preceding years. 1,407 births were notified
by midwives, 203 by the Home for Mothers and Babies and
Military Families Hospital, 435 by medical practitioners, and
400 by other persons. 75 still-births were notified (64, 79
and 59 in 1912, 1913 and 1914 respectively). Of the 75 stillborn,
36 were males, 35 females, and 4 not stated.
The Notification of Births Act was adopted on March 1st,
1908. There were 351 births last year which were not notified.
Five midwives were warned for neglect to notify.
774 live births, or 89 per cent., were notified in Woolwich
parish, 1,422, or 87 per cent., in Plumstead parish, and 249
or 84 per cent., in Eltham.
The proportion of still-births to live births was highest
amongst those attended by midwives (4 per cent.) and lowest
among those born at institutions (2 per cent.).
6. The following table gives the birth-rate of the Borough
during the years 1901-5, 1906-10, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914 and
1915, and for the purposes of comparison the corresponding
rates of the neighbouring Boroughs, London, and England:—