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BIRTHS.
It is the duty of a parent or other person present at the
birth to notify the Medical Officer of Health within 36 hours
of a birth taking place, and it is further a statutory duty to
register such birth within six weeks.
During the year 2,650 births were registered in the Borough,
1,380 being boys and 1,270 girls. In order to obtain a correct
birth rate it is necessary to deduct from these figures children
born in Woolwich whose parents normally reside elsewhere,
and to add to these figures children bom outside the Borough
whose parents normally reside in the Borough. In official
language these are known as outward and inward transfers
respectively. When the necessary corrections are made
the number of Woolwich births becomes 2,582. The estimated
figures for the different registration districts are as
shown in Table No. 5 as follows:.

The following Table, No. 6, shows the birth rates in each
registration district (after correction for outward and inward
transfers) for each quinquennium since 1901 and for each
year since 1921.