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The Committee provided dentures to two necessitous mothers who
were unable to complete their payments, the cost to the Committee being
£4 2s.
(The following tables refer to the whole Borough.)
Statistics Respecting Infants Born in 1934.
All births, including those occurring in outlying
districts, but belonging to the Borough 2,374
Doctors in attendance 275
Midwives in attendance 748
Delivered in institutions 1,341
Not stated —
Moved into Borough 130
2,504
Stillborn (Stillbirths per 1,000 births, 35.0) 83
Died before visit 40
Not requiring or desiring visits 60
183
Visited 2,321
Removed within the year 372
Died during visitation 72
444
Remaining under supervision end of first year 1,877
Mortality per 1,000 visited 31.2
The 1,877 children visited during 1935 and remaining under supervision
at the end of their first year of life, were fed during the first six
months of life as follows:—
Breast-fed 76.3 per cent.
Mixed feeding 16.8 ,,
Hand-fed 6.9 ,,
The 72 children who died during the first year of life, were fed
during the first six months of life as follows:—
Breast-fed 18.0 per cent.
Mixed feeding 36.1
Hand-fed 45.8