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The Infants born were
Boys 1,869
Girls 1,768
Sex not stated 38
3,675
The number of births exceeds the number of
notifications, as twins and triplets are usually notified on
the same form. This year there were 55 twin births :
25 pairs of boys, 10 pairs of girls, and 20 pairs of boy
and girl twins.
Information as to whether the infants born are
living or stillborn is not always stated on the notification
card. This year it was given in 122 cases: 59 boys and
63 girls. Four of the cases (3 male and 1 female) were
twins.
During the nine months since my appointment the
visits paid were
After notification of births 1,225
Special visits (illness, poverty, etc.) 313
Re-visits 201
Total visits 1,739
Twenty-six infants were overlain during the year
and in almost every case the mother had been previously
visited not only by me but by my predecessor, Mrs. Bridel,
and urged to get a separate cot for the baby. In some
cases the mother could not be brought to see the
necessity of this precaution; one woman said to me