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Tottenham 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Births, 1936.
LIVE BIRTHS.
Registrar-General's Figures— M. 993
F. 938
*1,931
Local Information:—
Total Births notified—2,030 (less 8 transfers to other
Districts) 2,022
Still Births 75
Live Births 1,947
*The Registrar's and the local figures do not agree because they
relate to different periods. The local notifications are those of children
horn within the year; the Registrar's, of those children registered within
the year.
MATERNITY SERVICES.
Arrangements for Maternity Cases have been made, in respect
of patients able to pay the whole or part of the fee, with the Mothers'
Hospital, Clapton; for others, at the North Middlesex County Hospital.
The following table shows the various institutions in which the
confinements of Tottenham residents took place, and the numbers in
each: —
The Mothers' Hospital, Clapton :—
Under the Council's Scheme 57
Own arrangements 157
214
The North Middlesex (County) Hospital 407
Other Outside Institutions 273
894
The remainder were confined within the District.