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Daily Guardians Scheme
At the end of 1963 the number of registered daily minders and the number of
children being cared for were as follows:-
Number of guardians registered 32
Number of children being cared for 25
Nurseries and Child Minders Regulation Act, 1948
At the end of the year there were 3 child minders, caring for 20 children,
registered in accordance with this Act.
Midwifery
A total of 1,531 live births were notified, of which 970 occurred in
hospital.

Nine County Council Midwives were qualified to administer inhalation
analgesia in accordance with the requirements of the Central Midwives Board.
Inhalation analgesia ("gas and air" or Trilene) was administered to 198 of the
patients they attended. Pethidine was given in 168 cases.
A total of 542 cases were delivered in hospital but discharged before the
tenth day, and were attended thereafter by County Council Midwives.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Dr. Hodgson has submitted the following report:-
"Considerable progress has been made in recent years in the field of
Child Development and consequent upon this in the ascertainment of young
children.
My interest in this topic was first aroused when I attended a Maternity
and Child Welfare Course some three years ago. The slant of the
course was towards child development, or the study of the sequence of
mental and physical growth of the young child. During this course, Dr.
Mary Sheridan, Ministry of Health, gave a talk on her methods of assessing
vision and hearing in the young and handicapped child. About this time a
Supplement to the Cerebral Palsy Bulletin called "The Neurological Examination
of the Infant" by Andre Thomas, Yves Chesni and S. Saint Anne
Dargassies was circulated to the clinics. This showed the trend of recent
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