Toi Road Registry and 213 at Kwun Tong. In the New Territories decreases were recorded in all areas with a few unimportant exceptions.
172. 437 multiple births were registered in 1970, 434 of twins and 3 of triplets, producing altogether 877 liveborn babies. 90 births were registered as illegitimate, as compared with 97 in 1969. The births registered also included 7 foundlings.
Post-registration of Births
173. Owing to the absence of facilities for registration in the New Territories until 1932, very few births in the villages were registered before then. In that year facilities were provided for registration at various places in the New Territories, but a great many villagers still neglected to register the births of their children. Under modern condi- tions a birth certificate has, at least for the young, become practically essential, and for many years past there has been a constant flow of applications to post-register births in the New Territories. To deal with these, three mobile teams have been operating throughout the year, visiting outlying villages according to a regular programme.
174. During 1970-71, 1,900 births were post-registered more than one year after the date of birth, as follows:
Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Kowloon
New Territories:
Islands District
Sai Kung District Tai Po District ... Tsuen Wan District Yuen Long District
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Total
1,311
14
33
...
221
50
...
271
589
1,900
This total represented a drop of 23 compared with the 1969-70 total of 1,923. At one time there used to be long waiting lists of applicants, but the substantial reduction in the number of applications since the peak of 7,124 in 1962-63 has enabled the registration teams to reduce delays to the minimum required for the process of verification, and by 31st March 1971 the total number of applications on the waiting list for all districts, urban and rural, was only 74. Of these 45 were in the urban area, and the remaining 29 in the New Territories.
175. Table XXXVII gives the number of births post-registered after one year from birth during the period 1945-57 and the years 1957-58
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