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The grounds for admission are :—
(1) First Confinements.
(2) Medical and Obstetrical.
(3) Unsuitable home/social conditions.
VITAL STATISTICS
Walthamstow England & Wales
Live birth-rate per 1,000 population 13.5 15.5
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 population 0.31 0.36
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live-
births 22.6 29.6
Extracts from vital statistics are given more fully in Section
"A" of this Report.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS
2,108 births (352 of which belonged to other areas)
were notified during the year under the Public Health Act, 1936.
Notifications were received as follows: Doctors, 226; Midwives,
1,825 ; others 57.
Included in the above are 313 births which were notified as
having occurred outside the Borough.
Also included are 50 stillbirths, ten of which belonged to
other areas. Of the total, seven occurred outside the Borough.
STILLBIRTHS
Forty local stillbirths were notified, yielding a rate per 1,000
population of 0.33.
NEO-NATAL MORTALITY
The neo-natal mortality is the number of infants dying under
one month per 1,000 live births. During 1951, 23 infants died in
the first four weeks of life, yielding a rate of 14.

The death rate of infants under one year of age per 1,000
live births when calculated on the totals given by the Registrar-
General are therefore :—
Legitimate, 20.77 ; Illegitimate, 1.83. Total, 22.6.