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2. Visiting:—
(i) Number of Visitors holding appointments under section 2 (2) at the
end of the year:—
(a) Health Visitors 4
(b) Female, other than Health Visitors —
(c) Male 1
67. ILLEGITIMACY.
Twenty-one illegitimate children were born during the year, and in the same
period two deaths of illegitimate infants occurred ; the infantile mortality rate
among these children was therefore 95.2, while that for legitimate infants was 63.7.
68. DENTAL CLINIC.
A general increase in this branch of the work has been taking place, and
during 1931 the attendances of expectant and nursing mothers and of children
referred from the Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics were as follows:—
(а) Number of treatments of children 714
(b) Number of mothers treated:—
New cases 152
Old cases 539
(c) Number of dentures supplied 80
(d) Sessions held 97
69. ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC.
Ninety-five children under school age were referred from the Infant Welfare
Clinics or by the local medical practitioners for examination by the Orthopaedic
Surgeon during the course of the year, and, in addition, 106 cases attended for
re-examination.