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Notification or 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
1929 was 1,648 (827 males and 821 females).
In addition, 49 stillbirths (31 males and 18 females) were
notified.
The percentage of births notified by the various responsible
persons was as follows:—
By Medical Practitioners 22.76
By Certified Midwives 50.91
By Parents and others 26.33
The causes of the 49 stillbirths were as follows:—
Fall in pregnancy of mother 3
Kidney trouble in mother 1
Fright during pregnancy, malformed infant,
spina bifida 1
Difficult labour, breech 4
„ large child 1
„ extended arms and legs; also
big baby 1
Difficulty in delivery (after coming head) 1
Macerated foetus 8
Shock 1
Twin, breech 1
Hydramnios 1
Twin 1
Placenta praevia 1
Small measurements 1
Born with pemphigus 1
Cord around arms 2
Prolapse of cord and early rupture of membranes 1
Unreduced occipito posterior 1
Prolonged and difficult labour 1
Hydrocephalus 1
Foetal asphyxia 1
Anencephalus 1
Prolapse of cord 1
Ante-partum haemorrhage and abnormal presentation 1
Malformed infant, spina bifida 1
Malformed infant (distended urinary bladder) 1
Unknown (breech) 1
Unknown cause 9