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Notification of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915.
By the Notification of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915, all live
births and stillbirths of seven months and over must be notified
to the Medical Officer of Health within 36 hours.
The number of births notified under the above Acts during
1925 was 1,395 (746 males and 649 females).
In addition 27 stillbirths (13 males and 14 females) were
notified.
The percentage of births notified by the various responsible
persons was as follows
By Medical Practitioners 23.30
By Certified Midwives 45.09
By Parents and others 31.61
Registration Act, 1836.
By the Registration Act, 1836, all live births are registered
with the Registrar of Births within six weeks.
The birth-rate is calculated on births registered, and during
the last year 1,486 (797 males and 689 females) births were registered,
giving a birth-rate of 16.5 per 1,000 persons calculated on
the net population, as compared with 1,436 births with a birth-rate
of 16.2 per 1,000 persons in 1924.
Infant Mortality.
The number of infants dying within the first year of life was
78, the total number born being 1,486. The infant mortality or
rate of death per 1,000 births was, therefore, 52.5.
The infant mortality rate for the district is, strictly speaking,
higher than it should be, from the fact that 7 deaths of babies
in the Girls' Village Homes, Barkingside, are included, although
the children concerned were not born in Ilford.