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Croydon 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936. PART VII.
Child Life Protection.
This part of the Act deals with Foster Mothers and Foster
Children.
The Tables below give figures for 1947.
FOSTER CHILDREN
| No. as at Dec. 31st 1946 | Notice of Reception of Children during the year | Notice of removal to— | Children Adopted | Died | Children reaching age of 9 | No. as al Dec. 31st 1947 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parent | Another aiea with Foster Parent | Another Foster Mother | Public Institution | ||||||
| 107 | 114 | 57 | 15 | 10 | 19 | 20 | — | 8 | 92 |
FOSTER MOTHERS.
| No. as at December 31st 1946 | Applications for Authorisati n during the year. | Removals during the year | Authorisation cancelled for other reasons | No. as at December 31st 1947 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| With Child | Without child | ||||
| 85 | 42 | 4 | — | 48 | 75 |
The Health Visitors paid 939 visits to foster-mothers for
(he purpose of supervision.
THE OBSTETRIC SERVICE.
The Obstetric Service has been described in my Report lor
1938. The following are the statistics for 1947: —
Taking the Registrar-General's figures for maternal mortality
(deaths directly due to pregnancy), the rate for England and
Wales for 1947 was 1.17 per 1,000 births. In Croydon the rate
was 1.92. In "booked" cases treated by the Obstetric Service
the rate for 1947 was 0.58 per 1,000 Hospital deliveries; nil per
1,000 home deliveries, and 0.26 per 1,000 over all deliveries.
Of the cases treated to a conclusion at the Post-Natal Clinic
during 1947, 95.5 per cent, were classified as " Health Unimpaired."
This signifies that anatomically and functionally their
condition was the same as before their pregnancies. The corresponding
figure for 1946 was 96.2.