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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
Hackney 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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rate for Hackney during 1924 has been calculated to be 18.5 per
1,000 of the population. The birth-rate for all London for the
same period is 18.7 per 1,000 of the population.
Notification of Births Act, 1907.— Under the provisions of
this Act 4,861 notifications of births were received during 1924.
This total includes notifications from medical practitioners, midwives,
parents and others. It also includes still-births. The
total is 59 more than the number registered by the Registrar of
Births.
Still-Births.— Amongst the births notified 144 were stillborn.
This is equal to 3.0 per cent. of those notified. A table is
here given showing the number of notifications received, with
other details in connection with the same.
NOTIFICATION of BIRTHS ACT, 1907.
| Year 1924. | Medical Practitioners | Midwives. | Parents and Others. | Total. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live. | Still. | Live. | Still. | Live. | Still. | Live. | Still | |||||||||
| M. | F | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M | F | |
| Totals | 395 | 389 | 9 | 14 | 1564 | 1534 | 45 | 50 | 434 | 401 | 16 | 10 | 2293 | 2324 | 70 | 74 |
Illegitimate Births and Birth-rate.— The total number of
illegitimate births registered in the Borough during the year 1921
was 334, but of these, the Registrar-General states that 243
should be transferred to districts outside the Borough, as the
mothers were not Hackney residents, and 27 births which took
place in other districts, should be transferred to Hackney. These
corrections having been made, there remain 118 illegitimate
births amongst Hackney residents. This is equivalent to an
illegitimate birth-rate of 28.0 per 1,000 births.