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Maternity and Child Welfare.
The Medical Officer of Health is required to submit annually to
the Ministry of Health a Return (1) showing the arrangements made
for maternity and child welfare by the Council and by Voluntary
Associations providing maternity and child welfare services in respect
of which the Council pays contributions under Section 101 of the Local
Government Act, 1929, or otherwise; and (2) giving particulars of
the work done during the year.
As this Return presents in a succinct form the work of this section
of the Public Health Department, it is here reproduced.
1. Population of the area served by the Council:—90,600 (estimate
of Registrar-General, 1935).
2. Number of births notified in that area during the year under the
Notification of Births Act, 1907, as adjusted by any transferred
notifications:—
(a) Live births 965; (b) Still births 52; (c) Total 1,017.
(d) By midwives 239; (e) By doctors and parents 778.
3. Health Visiting.
(a) Number of officers employed for health visiting at the end
of the year :—
(i) by the Council:—4 whole-time: 1 part-time (40
per cent, health visitor, 60 per cent, woman sanitary
inspector).
(ii) by Voluntary Associations :—Nil.
(b) Equivalent of whole-time services devoted by the whole
staff to health visiting (including attendance at infant welfare
centres)—
(i) in the case of Health Visitors employed by the
Council :—4 whole-time : 1 part-time (40 per cent,
health visiting).
(ii) in the case of Health Visitors employed by Voluntary
Associations:—Nil.
(c) Number of visits paid during the year by all Health
Visitors:—
(i) to expectant mothers
†First visits 321
Total visits 749
† Excluding cases which are known to have previously been visited in another district and
cases visited during the previous year.