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This compares with the sum of £131 5s. 7d. in
1924, £169 10s. 9d. in 1923, £337 18s. Id. in 1922,
£1,041 15s. in 1921, and £1,169 14s. in 1920.
The usual careful enquiries have been made into
the financial circumstances of each applicant for free
or reduced price milk, and the Maternity and Child
Welfare Committee have been much helped in these
enquiries by the Charity Organisation Society. In
addition to the milk given free or at reduced price,
10,229 lbs. of dried milk, value £940 18s. lid., were
sold at cost price to persons recommended by the
Health Visitors or the Infant Welfare Centres. In 1924
the amount of dried milk distributed was 13,481 lbs.,
value £1,028 ; while in 1923 the amount was 15,079
lbs., value £1,339 2s. 4d.
Incidence of Infectious Disease amongst Parturient
Women and Infants.
Puerperal Fever.—21 cases, equal to 7.5 per 1,000
births, were notified during 1925, compared with 26
cases for the previous year and 32 for 1923. There
were four deaths from this disease, this being the same
number as during 1924. Every case was removed to
hospital. Although the number of cases of this
disease notified in the Borough is still high, certainly
higher than it ought to be, it is some consolation to
know that the number of cases for 1925 is the lowest
recorded during the five-year period covered by this
survey report. It is further satisfactory that for the
last two years there have been only four deaths each
year from this complication of child birth. These
figures compare with nine deaths for 1923, eight deaths
for 1922 and six deaths for 1921. Included in the
number of notifications of puerperal fever are 10 cases