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No. of oases in which help was provided:
Maternity 43
Tuberculosis 19
Other 553
(7) Care of Premature Infants.
No. of premature births during the year 68
No. of deaths under 1 month 8
(8) Immunisation.
No. of children who completed a full course of
primary immunisation.
Under 5 years of age 581
5-14 years of age 263
No. of children who were given a secondary or
reinforcing injection 684
(9) Vaccination
No. of children successfully vaccinated 274
No. found to be Insusceptible to vaccination Nil
4. Notification of Births.
Arrangements continued in operation during the year whereby
the London County Council furnished to the Borough Council a
weekly return of births (including stillbirths) notified to them
as the Local Health Authority under the National Health Service
Act, 1946.
During the year 981 live births (478 male and 503 female) were
notified and in addition there were 23 stillbirths (12 male and
11 female).
These figures represent corrected totals after the addition of
inward transfers and the deletion of outward transfers.