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other the success of the work accomplished in the interests
of Maternity and Child Welfare :—
Number of Births registered during the year 2 537
Corrected Number of Births 2,701
These figures represent a Birth-rate per 1,000 of the population
of the Borough of 20.2
Corrected Number of Deaths of Infants under one year, of
whom 54 died under one week 173
Legitimate Infants—162, or 63 per 1 000 Births.
Illegitimate Infants—11, or 85 per 1,000 Births.
Infant Mortality Rate per 1,000 Births 64
The work undertaken under this heading in the Borough
during the year 1923 falls into three categories :—
1. Activities directly initiated by the Borough Council-.
(а) Provision of three Health Visitors, as in former years.
(b) Provision of a Maternity Home.
(c) Supply of Free Milk to necessitous Mothers and Young Children
(d) Treatment and Nursing of Children under School Age.
2. Activities of Voluntary Agencies in receipt of grantsin-aid
from the Borough Council:
(a) Infant Welfare Centres.
(b) Day Nurseries.
3. Activities of independent Voluntary Agencies :
(а) Rescue Homes.
(b) Convalescent Treatment for Invalid Children
Health Visitors.—Three Health Visitors were engaged, as
in former years, in visits of enquiry to Births, Infant Deaths,
cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Puerperal Fever, and other
diseases of mothers and young children ; they have also taken
an active part in the work of the Voluntary Infant Welfare
Centres.