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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
1930 was 1,703 (852 males and 851 females).
The percentage of births notified by the various responsible
persons was as follows:-
By Medical Practitioners 32.53
By Certified Midwives 51.61
By Parents and others 15.85
In addition, 52 stillbirths (25 males and 27 females) were
notified.
The causes of the 52 stillbirths were as follows:—
Difficult labour 9
Cord around neck 1
Ill health of mother 2
Shock 3
Fall of mother 2
Anencephalus 4
Extended breech 1
Macerated foetus 1
Foetal distress 1
Malformed infant 1
Death of mother, premature infant 1
Prolapse of cord 1
Eclampsia 1
Ante-partum hæmorrhage 2
Toxaemia of pregnancy 2
Unknown 20