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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
1923 was 1,541 (800 males and 741 females).
In addition, 36 stillbirths (25 males and 11 females) were
notified.
The percentage of births notified by the various responsible
persons was as follows:—
By Medical Practitioners 19.72
,, Certified Midwives 44.71
,, Parents and others 35.57
Registration Act, 1836.
By the Registration Act, 1836, all live births are registered
with the Registrar of Births within six weeks.
The birth-rate is calculated on births registered, and during
the last year 1,606 (822 males and 784 females) were registered
giving a birth-rate of 18.8 per 1,000 persons calculated on the
net population; as compared with 1,475 births with a birth-rate
of 17.8 per 1,000 persons in 1922.
Infant Mortality.
The number of infants dying within the first year of life was
66, the total number born being 1,606. The infant mortality or
rate of death per 1,000 births was therefore 41.1.
The infant mortality rate for the district is, strictly speaking,
higher than it should be, from the fact that the deaths of babies
in the Girls' Village Homes, Barkingside, are included, although
the children concerned were not born in Ilford.
If the deaths of babies in the Girls' Village Homes are excluded
there remains an infant mortality rate for the district
of only 37.4 per 1,000 births.