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SECTION VIII.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Return (1) showing the arrangements made for maternity and
child welfare by the Council and by Voluntary Associations providing
maternity and child welfare services in respect of which
the Council pay contributions under Section 101 of the Local
Government Act, 1929, or otherwise; and (2) giving particulars
of the work done during the year 1930.
1.—Population of the area served by the Council, 222,300.
2.—Number of births notified in that area during the year
under the Notification of Births Act, 1907-
(a) Live births, 3,410; (b) Still births, 78; (c) Total, 3,488;
(d) By midwives, 2,620; (e) By doctors and parents, 868.
3.—Health Visiting—
(i) Number of officers employed for health visiting at the end of the
year by the Council, 19.
(ii) If any of the Health Visitors are engaged on other work during
part of their time, state the equivalent of whole-time services
devoted by the whole staff to health visiting—(a) in the case of
Health Visitors employed by the Council: 5/11, M.C.W.; 5/11,
S.M.S. ; 1/22, T.B. ; 1/22, G.P.H.
(iii) Number of visits paid during the year by all Health Visitors—
(a) To expectant mothers: First visits 466; total visits 813.
(b) To children under 1 year of age : First visits 3,808; total
visits 10,210.
(c) To children between the ages of 1 and 5 years: Total
visits 14,874
4.—Infant Welfare Centres—
(a) Number of Centres provided and maintained by the Council: 1.
(b) Number of Centres provided and maintained bv Voluntary
Associations: 15.
(c) Total number of attendances at all Centres during the year—
(i) By children under 1 year of age, 33,566.
(ii) By children between the ages of 1 and 5 years, 28,733.
(d) Average attendance of children per session at all Centres during
the year, 67.2.
(e) Total number of children who attended at the Centres for the first
time during the year—
(i) Children under 1 year of age, 2,148.
(ii) Children between the ages of 1 and 5 years, 708.
(f) Percentage of total notified births represented bv the number in
(e) (i), 62.99.
5.-Ante-natal Clinics (whether held at Infant Welfare
Centres or at other premises)—
(a) Number of Clinics* provided and maintained by the Council: 1.