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conducts confinements in the district; also
(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.
The public service is accustomed to grumbles from
those whose vested interests or prejudices it disturbs.
It is, therefore, all the more gratifying to receive
appreciation and praise. A mother writes :
" I feel that I must write this letter in appreciation of the
wonderful attention given to me during the period of my
confinement. I think the Welfare Scheme of providing midwife
and home help, a boon to poor people."
In the interests of the modesty of the staff, I
refrain from quoting further laudatory personal remarks
by this mother. Suffice it to show that there is a
human side to our work.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACTS,
1907 AND 1915.
During the year, 1,034 live births were registered
in the Borough ; and 1,002 live births were notified to
the Medical Officer of Health. There were also 41
stillbirths notified. Of the 1,043 living and stillbirths
notified, 27 were found to relate to other districts and
were duly transferred, 764 were notified by midwives,