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In the meantime, however, the County Council have put forward proposals
for the enlargement of Redhill Hospital, and that enlargement provides
for an additional 25 beds for maternity cases.
CHILDREN ACT, 1908, AND CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS
ACT, 1932.
There is nothing to add to that which was said in the previous year
excepting that the Children Act of 1932 came into operation on the 1st January,
1933. This Act gives additional powers to the responsible authorities, raises
the age of which a child is considered a foster child from 7 to 9 years, it
lengthens the period in which the prospective foster parent must give notice
of her intention to take a child, and it increases the conditions which may
be regarded as unsuitable by the registering authority.
TABLE VII.
The number of persons receiving children for reward, on the Register
at the end of the year, was 62.

No proceedings under the Act were taken by the Local Authority during
the year.
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
As in the past, investigations are made into each maternal death, and
only three deaths of residents were attributable to this cause, but investigations
were, of course, carried out into more deaths than the above-mentioned
total as a number of deaths occurred in Redhill Hospital of women who had
been admitted there for their confinement from other outside areas.
MATERNITY CENTRES AND HOME VISITATION.
It will be seen that there is a steady increase in the numbers attending
the centres, the total having increased from 35,184 to 38,825, and visits
paid by the Health Visitors to the homes have also increased. This is due to
the services becoming better known and to the fact that the Borough is still
developing rapidly.
Over 1,000 houses came into rating during the year and the majority
of these are occupied by young married people. This increase will render
certain additions to the staff inevitable in the near future,