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Priority.
Priority Dockets for sheets are available for expectant
mothers being confined in their own homes. 380
dockets have been issued during the year to 149 women.
Care of Premature Infants.
Daily visits are paid commencing immediately on
discharge from hospital, and in the case of home confinements
as soon as the Midwife has left the case, and
continue until the child is one month old.
Two sets of equipment including Draught-proof
Cots, Blankets, Hot Water Bottles, Cot Mattress, Pillows,
and Electric Blanket, are available for use in the District.
The total number of premature babies notified
who were born :—
(a) At Home 9.
(b) In Hospital 17.
(i) The number of those born at home :—
(a) Who were nursed entirely at home 9.
(b) Who died during the first 24 hours 2.
(c) Who survived at the end of one month 7.
(ii) The number of those born in Hospital :—
(a) Who died during the first 24 hours 2.
(b) Who survived at the end of one month 13.
Total from 1st January, 1946, to the 31st December,
1946, 26. This figure includes 7 outward transfers.
Care of Illegitimate Children.
Co-operation exists between the Staff of the Health
Department and the Moral Welfare Officer of the Rochester
Diocese. The Council have continued to make contribution
toward the maintenance of unmarried mothers
admitted to the Diocesan Homes. One such case was
admitted.
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