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the year, and to the fact that the time of the Health Visitors
is increasingly being taken up in attendance at the various
Inspection and Treatment Clinics.
The percentage of children who are receiving mother's milk
is about the same as last year, being 86 as compared with 85.
The number of women employed during pregnancy has decreased,
the percentage being 15 as compared with 18 last year.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
The Baby Clinics are proving successful, but very few persons
have, as yet, taken advantage of the Maternity consultations. The
children's attendances at the centres were 1,657, as compared
with 1,312 in the previous year.
Infant Deaths.
The total number of Infant deaths during 1918 was 63, giving
an Infant Mortality rate of 86 per 1,000 births. This figure is
lower than that of 1917, which was 117 per 1,000 births. It is
also lower than the rate for England and Wales for the same
period, 97, and London, 107.
The Infant Mortality rate, as seen from the following table,
varies from 40 in Isleworth South Ward, which is the lowest, to
118 in Isleworth North Ward, where the rate is highest :—
HE8TON.
Heston 59
Hounslow North 81
Isleworth.
Hounslow South 106
Isleworth North 118
Isle worth South 40
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Cases Removed to Hospital.
During the year, 132 cases (other than Tuberculosis) were
removed to hospital. Of these 132, 3 were treated in the
Infirmary, 4 were treated in other hospitals, leaving 125 who
were treated at Mogden Hospital.