ORANGE COUNTY HOSPITAL BIRTHS--OCTOBER

Hospital Births St. Joseph 492 UCI 473 Fountain Valley Regional 405 Kaiser Permanente 278 Hoag Memorial Presbyterian 269 Martin Luther 214 Mission Regional Medical Center 147 Santa Ana Hospital & Medical Center 132 St. Jude-Fullerton 130 Saddleback 93 St. Jude-Yorba Linda 90 Los Alamitos Medical Center 82 Humana-Westminster 75 Chapman General 67 LaPalma Intercommunity 56 Humana-West Anaheim 54 Humana-Huntington Beach 45 Anaheim General 41 South Coast Medical Center 30 TOTAL 3,173 MONTHLY TOTALS October 3,173 September 3,137 August 3,420 July 3,220 June 2,795 May 2,823 April 2,812 March 2,787 February 2,450 January 2,482 YEAR-TO-DATE TOTAL 29,099

Note: The following hospitals declined to provide information--Coastal Communities, Placentia-Linda, Medical Center of Garden Grove and the Western Medical Centers in Santa Ana and Tustin.

Source: Individual hospitals