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(x) Provides a panel of Obstetrical Consultants
whose services are available to local doctors in
any difficult or abnormal confinement.
(xi) Provides the services of Home Helps to
relieve women of domestic work during confinement;
and
(xii) Supplies a sterile maternity outfit.
(xiii) Mothers recovering from confinement, also
ailing children, are sent away for convalescent
treatment.
(xiv) In-patient operative treatment is provided
for children with enlarged tonsils, etc.
(xv) Nursing assistance in a variety of illnesses
is provided through the agency of the District
Nursing Association.
It is not the practice of local authorities to advertise
their social services in the manner of commercial undertakings.
If it were, there is an abundance of good
material for such publicity. Not the least gratifying
feature of the Council's public health work is the
growing appreciation and co-operation it elicits from
the residents in the Borough. It is a frequent experience
in connection with invitations to parents to send
their children for dental examination to receive such
communications as the following : —
"May I express appreciation of the interest taken by
the Council for the health and welfare of the children of
the Borough."
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACTS,
1907 AND 1915.
During the year, 1,143 live births were registered
in the Borough; and 1,103 births were notified to
the Medical Officer of Health. There were also 35