asked the Minister for Health if he will consider directing that the notification of the occurrence of stillbirths and miscarriages be made obligatory.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Notification of Stillbirths and Miscarriages.
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Mr. O'Malley
Under the Vital Statistics (Foetal Deaths) Regulations, 1956, the notification of foetal deaths occurring after twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy is at present obligatory. Miscarriages, that is losses occurring before the end of the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy, are not notifiable and I am advised that it would be neither practicable nor necessary to make their notification obligatory.