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66. ILLEGITIMACY.
Twenty illegitimate children were born during the year, and in the same
period six deaths of illegitimate infants occurred ; the infantile mortality rate
among these children was therefore 300.0, while that for legitimate infants was 48.8.
Previously I have written upon the question of illegitimacy, and again I must
ask you to contrast the very high infantile death rate among illegitimate children
with the relatively favourable rate among legitimate children.
You will note that this rate is over six times as high as that among legitimate
children.
To deal with this problem requires co-operation amongst all the organisations
that are interested in moral and social welfare.
As I have said, the twenty births of illegitimate children showed six deaths ;
twenty corresponding legitimate children showed an average of only one death.
67. DENTAL CLINIC.
A general increase in this branch of the work has been taking place, and during
1932 the attendances of expectant and nursing mothers and of children referred
from the Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics were as follows:—
(a) Number of treatments of children 785
(b) Number of mothers treated:—
New cases 148
Old cases 702
(c) Number of dentures supplied 149
(d) Sessions held 96
68. RTHOPÆDIC CLINIC.
Seventy-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, 118 cases attended for
re-examination.
There of the children received in-patient treatment at Orthopaedic Hospitals.