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Deaths of the register kept or notifications received, and has been of
much assistance to the Registrars in enabling them to check false
information and false addresses.
Every medical practitioner and midwife is supplied with prepaid
post-cards as required by the Act, and the following are the figures
for the year:—
Actual number of births received 7,467
Duplicate notifications 22
Still births 213
Notifications of births which belonged
to other districts 140
375
Net West Ham births notified 7,092
Of the total 8,646 births registered in the year 162 were
illegitimate, and of the total infant deaths 44 were illegitimate, so that
the infantile mortality among the illegitimate children was 271 per
1,000 births, while that among the legitimate children was only 97
per 1,000 births.
Factory and Workshops Act, 1901.—Section 132
provides that the Medical Officer of Health of every District Council,
shall, in his annual report to them, report specifically on the administration
of this Act in workshops and workplaces, and he shall send a
copy of his annual report, or so much of it as deals with this subject,
to the Secretary of State.