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The following is a record of cases admitted to the
Home during the year 1926 :—
Cases admitted 195
Average duration of stay (days) 14
Number of cases delivered by—
(a) Midwives 186
(b) Doctors 9
Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis —
Number of cases in which the temperature
was above 100.4 for 24 hours ' 1
Number of cases notified as ophthalmia
neonatorum 2
Number of cases of inflammation of eyes,
however slight 6
Number of infants not entirely breastfed
while in the institution —
Number of maternal deaths —
Number of foetal deaths (stillborn or within
ten days of birth) 2
Provision of Milk under the Maternity and
Child Welfare Act, 1918.
Milk is supplied free or at less than cost price to
expectant and nursing mothers and to children under
3 years of age in necessitous cases and during the year
under review grants were made in 217 cases.
Applications are considered by the Sub-Committee
of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee. Under
this scheme the cost to the Council for the year was :—
£ s. d.
For dried milk Ill 14 2
For fresh milk 9 11 10
Total £121 6 0
The comparative expenditure for the three preceding
years was as follows : In 1925, £80 10s. 3d. ;
in 1924, £131 5s. 7d. ; and in 1923, £169 10s. 9d.
Milk is also sold at cost price in cases recommended
by the Health Visitors or by the staff of the Infant
Welfare Centres, and during 1926, under this part of
the scheme, 9,996 lbs. of dried milk were supplied at
a cost to the families of £919 13s. 2d., compared with
10,229 lbs. distributed in 1925 at a cost of £940 18s. 11d.