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Worked after birth of child:—
Homework 10.08 per cent.
Factory, workshop, charing, etc. 6.44 ,,
These last figures are based on the 605 cases in which the first visit
was paid by myself, but as the cases change hands the figures are
inaccurate.
Consultation Days.
There were 2,385 attendances at the consultation days for mothers
and babies, an increase of 866 compared with 1909, the average attendance
at the various Centres being as follows:—
Roman Road Baths 44
St. Frideswides' Mission House 34
St. Mildred's House 21
The Vicarage Room, High Street, Bromley 20
Fern Street School Settlement 20
Town Hall, Poplar 18
Maternity Club.
This was started at the Isle of Dogs Centre early in 1910. A bonus
of 1d. in the 1s. is given and various sick room appliances and articles of
clothing loaned, the minimum deposit to entitle the member to benefit
being 1s. 6d.
Number joining 43
„ paid out 29
,, on books at end of year 14
Average amount deposited 4s.
Vital Statistics.
The figures appended refer to infants born in 1909, and here I am
also able to record an improvement, there being an increase of 524 in the
number of infants kept under supervision as compared with 1908, but a
decrease of 5.44 per thousand in the rate of mortality.
Visited 1,446
Removed and not traced 322
Died 111
Rate of mortality per 1,000 visited, 98.75.
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