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"Thanks also are due to Alderman Miss C. M. Eve, J.P., for
her frequent gifts of woollies, and especially for her Christmas gifts;
and to Councillor Liverman, through whom some of our poorest
homes have the happiness of receiving a hamper at Christmas.
"It is gratifying to have a low Infant Mortality Rate, more
especially as it is the last year we have Professor Kenwood as
Medical Officer of Health.
"Of the 41 infants who died, 9 only had attended the Centres.
Four of these are dealt with by the Medical Officer in her report.
Of the remaining 5, 2 died after only one attendance at 29 and
40 days old, the first having congenital malformation of the intestines
and the second dying of Broncho-Pneumonia, but also being
congenital. Both infants were referred to their own doctor when
brought to the Centres. Of the 3 who had made (combined) 8
attendances, one was a delicate infant under its own doctor and
hospital the whole of its life; one was sent to its own doctor on its
first attendance, and the other on its third attendance, after which
it lived 5 weeks, dying of Ileo Colitis and Marasmus in Hackney
Hospital.