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SECTION 4.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The Council's Scheme under the Maternity and Child Welfare
Act, 1918, has been extended during the year.
The use of the Artificial Sunlight Clinic, working in co-operation
with the Infant Welfare Clinics, continues to be attended with good
results.
REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS.
By the Registration Act, 1836, all live births must be registered
within a period of six weeks.
The actual number of live births within the district during
the year was 790, the net total of 805 being obtained by adjustment
of inward and outward transfers, etc.
The births registered included 420 males and 385 females. There
were 20 illegitimate births, or 2.5 per cent, of the total. In comparison
with 1927, 95 more births were registered during the year,
a rise equivalent to 11.8 per cent.
By the Notification of Births Act, all live births and still-births
of seven months and over are required to be notified to the Medical
Officer of Health within 36 hours. Of the total live births all except
30 or 3.7 per cent, were notified. In addition 4 still births were not
notified.

The percentage of still-births was 1.7