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The following statements contain so much information with regard to the
scheme and the work done that they will probably be found useful. Both are
required to be made by the Ministry of Health, the first to show 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 pay
contributions under Section 101 of the Local Government Act, 1929, or otherwise;
and the second to give particulars of the work done during the year 1931.
Statement Showing Arrangements Made for Maternity and
Child Welfare.
1. Population of the area served by the Council, 93,460.
2. Number of births notified in that area during the year under the
tions of Births Act, 1907, as adjusted by any transferred notifications:
(a) Live births, 1,335; (b) Still births, 46; (c) Total, 1,381; (d) By midwives,
522; (e) By doctors and parents, 175; (f) By hospitals, 265; (g) By
matrons of Nursing Homes and transferred notifications, 419.
3. Health Visiting.
(i) Number of officers employed for health visiting at the end of the
year : (a) by the Council, 6; (b) by Voluntary Associations, 2.
(ii) Equivalent of whole time services devoted by the whole staff to
health visiting (including attendance at infant welfare centres)
(a) in the case of Health Visitors employed by the Council, 5; (b) in
the case of Health Visitors employed by Voluntary Associations, 1.
(iii) Number of visits paid during the year by all Health Visitors:—(a)
To expectant mothers, first visits, 405; total visits, 522. (b) To
children under 1 year of age, first visits, 973; total visits, 7,657.
(c) To children between the ages of 1 and 5 years, total visits, 6,052.
4. Infant Welfare Centres.
(a) Number of Centres provided and maintained by the Council, one.
Opened 24th March, 1931. (Three year old pre-school clinic.)
(b) Number of Centres provided and maintained by Voluntary Associations,
7.
(c) Total number of attendances at all Centres during the year : (i) By
children under 1 year of age, 12,788; (ii) By children between the
ages of 1 and 5 years, 15,287 + 104 (3 year olds).
(d) Average attendance of children per session at all Centres during the
year, 22.07.
(e) Total number of children who attended at the Centres for the first
time during the year: (i) Children under 1 year of age, 1,092; (ii)
Children between the ages of 1 and 5 years, 323 + 104 (3 year
olds).
(f) Percentage of total notified births represented by the number in (e) (i),
79.07.
5. Ante-natal clinics (whether held at Infant Welfare Centres or at other
premises):—
(a) Number of Clinics provided and maintained by the Council, nil.
(b) Number of Clinics provided and maintained by Voluntary
tions, 4.
(c) Total number of attendances by expectant mothers at all Clinics
during the year, 19,254.*
(d) Average attendance of expectant mothers per session at all Clinics
during the year, 41.5.*
(e) Total number of expectant mothers who attended at the Clinics during
the year, 3,601.*