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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Merton 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton]
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Notifications of Birth
The table below gives details of all births notified during the year occurring in the home, or in Institutions, and gives the total number of births finally attributable to Merton after outward transfer of births attributable to other Authorities. This figure of attributable notified births does not necessarily coincide with the number of attributable registered births supplied by the Registrar-General.
| Domiciliary Births | Institutional Births | Total Births | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live | Still | Total | Live | Still | Total | Live | Still | Total | ||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Births notified as occurring in Merton | 84 | 81 | - | 1 | 84 | 82 | 978 | 911 | 6 | 3 | 984 | 914 | 1062 | 992 | 6 | 4 | 1068 | 996 |
| Births occurring outside Merton attributable to Merton (Inward Transfers) | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 742 | 653 | 6 | 13 | 748 | 666 | 742 | 654 | 6 | 13 | 748 | 667 |
| Total of all births notified | 84 | 82 | - | 1 | 84 | 83 | 1720 | 1564 | 12 | 16 | 1732 | 1580 | 1804 | 1646 | 12 | 17 | 1816 | 1663 |
| Births occurring in Merton attributable to other Authorities (Outward Transfers) | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | - | 517 | 479 | 4 | 2 | 521 | 481 | 518 | 479 | 4 | 2 | 522 | 481 |
| Total births attributable to Merton | 83 | 82 | — | 1 | 83 | 83 | 1203 | 1085 | 8 | 14 | 1211 | 1099 | 1286 | 1167 | 8 | 15 | 1294 | 1182 |