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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
tion of Births Act, 1907, as adjusted by any transferred notifications :
(a) Live births, 1,037; (b) Still births, 30; (c) Total, 1,067; (d) By midwives,
379; (e) By doctors and parents, 118; (f) By hospitals, 334; (g) By
matrons of Nursing Homes and transferred notifications, 236.
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, 372; total visits, 523. (b) To
children under 1 year of age, first visits, 1,068; total visits, 6,326.
(c) To children between the ages of 1 and 5 years, total visits, 6,641.
4. Infant Welfare Centres.
(a) Number of Centres provided and maintained by the Council, one.
(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, 15,279; (ii) By children between the
ages of 1 and 5 years, 14,781 + 91 (3 year olds).
(d) Total number of children who attended at the Centres for the first
time during the year : (i) Children under 1 year of age, 1,100 ; (ii)
Children between the ages of 1 and 5 years, 153 + 91 (3 year
olds).
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, 20,194.*
(d) Total number of expectant mothers who attended at the Clinics during
the year, 3,712.*
(e) Percentage of total notified births represented by the number in (d),
89.*
*These figures apply to all mothers attending the clinics at Queen
Charlotte's Hospital, Middlesex Hospital, etc. The figure for
Marylebone residents is not obtainable.
6. 7, 8, 9. * * * * *
10. Day Nurseries.
(a) Number of day nurseries: (i) provided by the Council, nil; (ii) provided
by Voluntary Associations, 3.