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Details regarding the milk supplied during 1925 are:—
Number of applicants 862
„ „ „ granted milk 839
Number of pints granted free 3,108
„ „ „ at ½ cost 32,044
at ½ cost 252
In addition to attendances at the various clinics and centres, the Health
Visitors paid the following visits to the homes:—
Visits to expectant mothers: (1) First 105
(2) Total 156
Visits to children under 1 year: (1) First 1,408
(2) Total 3,985
Visits to children 1—5 years 3,527
Visits re milk enquiries 31
Other visits 1,059
Grand Total 8,758
Included in the above are eight visits to notified cases of ophthalmia
neonatorum and three visits to three cases of puerperal fever.
Births notified during the year were:—
Live births: by doctors 487
„ by midwives or parents 1,493
Still-births: by midwives 44
„ by doctors 18
Total births notified 2,042
(This total includes births at the North Middlesex Hospital, many of which
are of non-Edmonton residents).
Still-births as well as live-births are visited by the Health Visitors, and
due enquiries are made.
During 1925 there were 19 midwives practising in the district.
The dental clinic, opened in November, 1924, has found plenty of work in
the mothers and children attending the centres.
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