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My point is that unless attendances at these clinics are so
organised they lose in efficiency, to their disadvantage when compared
with general practice.
It is obvious that if a clinic is planned for half a dozen, a dozen
or a score of appointments, those appointments must be kept,
because it is impossible to arrange for the practitioner to be available
for the whole of the twenty-four hours as in general practice.
Every time, therefore, that a member of the public is given an
appointment and does not keep it, he or she is decreasing the
efficiency of the service retained by them, and it behoves everybody
who is interested in the development of a sound economic clinic
system to see that once appointments are made they are kept.
54. REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS.
By the Registration Act, 1836, all live births must be registered
within a period of six weeks.
The actual number of live births within the district during
the year was 786, the net total of 799 being obtained by adjustment
of inward and outward transfers, etc.
The births registered included 414 males and 385 females. There
were 22 illegitimate births, or 2.7 per cent of the total. In comparison
with 1929, 12 more births were registered during the year,
an increase equivalent to 1.5 per cent.
By the Notification of Births Act, 1907, all live births and
still-births of seven months and over are required to be notified to
the Medical Officer of Health within 36 hours. Of the total live
births all except 11 or 1.4 per cent. were notified. In addition 10
still births were not notified.

The percentage of still-births was 2.9