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provided ante-natal care with midwives, at four of the Council's clinics.
Statistics on page 86.
MIDWIVES ACT, 1951
The Council is a local supervising authority under the Midwives Act, 1951,
supervising functions being carried out by the Council's non-medical supervisor of
midwives. The number of midwives who notified during the year their intention to
practice as midwives within the borough, including those in hospitals was 98, the
number practising at the end of the year being 74.
MATERNITY LIAISON COMMITTEES
The department is represented on local maternity liaison committees by the
Medical Officer of Health or Principal Medical Officer and the non-medical supervisor
of midwives or the principal nursing officer. As the borough is served by two
hospital management committees, there are separate maternity liaison committees for
each group catchment area
VACCINATION AGAINST MEASLES
Vaccination against measles for al 1 children up to the age of 15 years continued;
1996 chi1dren be ing vaccinated during the year , including 217bygeneral practitioners.
VACCINATION AGAINST RUBELLA
Vaccination against rubella continued to be offered to all girls between their
11th and 14th birthdays. The purpose is to ensure that as many girls as possible
are offered protection against rubella by vaccination before reaching child-bearing
age because of the known association of certain foetal abnormalities with rubella
infection in pregnancy. During the year 1 027 girls were vaccinated.
OBSERVATION REGISTER
At the end of the year, the Observation Register totalled 5,740 persons,
comprising:-
Children under 5 "at risk" 2,514
-do- handicapped 275
Young persons aged 5-21
years handicapped 2,744
Children non-resident but attending
schools in the borough 207
The Principal Medical Officer keeps the register under constant review. Further
details relating to the register will be found on page 74,
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