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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS.
The total number of live births registered during the year was
3,292, 1,697 male and 1,595 female. Of these 105 were illegitimate,
being a percentage of total births of 3.2.
2,243 births occurred in the district (2,190 live and 53 still
births). Of this number 289 (282 live and seven still births) were
to residents of other districts. Of the local confinements 1,489
were notified by midwives and 881 by doctors or parents.
1,367 (1,332 live and 35 still birth) notifications were transferred
from other districts, being mostly in respect of births occurring to
Harrow mothers in Middlesex County Council or London hospitals.
STILL BIRTHS.
63 male and 43 female still births were registered, being a rate
per 1,000 population of 0.57 compared with a figure of 0.60 for the
country as a whole.
The following is a classified list of the causes of those stillbirths
of which particulars are know:—
1. Caused by disease in or accident to the mother:—
(1) Chronic disease of the mother:—
(а) Syphilis 1
(b) Other 1
(2) Acute disease in or accident to mother
(a) Toxaemia during pregnancy 9
(b) Other 4
(3) Over-exertion:—
(a) As result of over-work —
(b) Other —
(4) External violence —
(5) Others 3
2. Anomalies of fœtus, placenta or cord:—
(6) Congenital malformation incompatible with life 7
(7) Vicious insertion of placenta 2
(8) Other anomalies of placenta or cord —
3. Death of foetus by injury or other causes
(9) Abnormal presentation 4
(10) Malformations of pelvis —
(11) Prolapse of cord —
(12) Prolonged labour or uterine inertia 8
(13) Obstetrical operations:—
(a) Operation causing mutilation —
(b) Other obstetrical operation 4
(14) Other causes —