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CONVALESCENT TREATMENT.
The Council's arrangements for the provision of
convalescent treatment for mothers recovering from
their confinements were continued during the year.
Twenty mothers, mostly with their babies, were sent
to the Catherine Gladstone Convalescent Home, Mitcham,
for two weeks each. In accordance with the
conditions laid down by the Ministry of Health, in
7 cases the family was required to contribute to the
cost of the treatment, the family circumstances of the
other 13 cases being such as to preclude any such
contribution. Many of the mothers have expressed
satisfaction at the treatment at the Home.
A similar arrangement has been made for convalescent
treatment for young children with the Hertfordshire
County Council at their Home at St.
Leonard's-on-Sea. This arrangement only came into
operation in May, 1922. Up to the end of the year
12 children were sent away, mostly for a period of
one month each, but owing to an outbreak of measles
at the Home, this period was extended in certain
cases. In 5 cases a charge was made for the treatment.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Two hundred and sixty-nine deaths of Bethnal
Green infants under one year of age took place during
the year. This is equal to a rate of infantile mortality
of 90.2 per 1,000 births.

So far as can be ascertained. ,258 of the deaths
were those of legitimate infants and 11 those of illegitimate
infants. Accordingly, we have the following