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At the Meeting of the Council in December the following
motion was carried :—
That subject to the approval of the Local Government
Board, for which application be at once made, the scheme outlined
in the foregoing report of the Medical Officer of Health
be adopted.
That a Health Visitor be immediately appointed, on the
terms suggested, and that applications for such appointment
be invited by advertisement in the Local Papers and Sanitary
Record.
That the Medical Officer of Health be instructed to:—
(a) Submit a definite proposal in regard to Medical Attendance
at four Centres;
(b) Make enquiries as to whether the places mentioned
are available as Centres fortnightly at first, and weekly should
the need arise, and if so, on what terms; and
(c) Confer with the Education Committee as to the
practicability of giving effect to his suggestion in regard to
obtaining part time services of the School Nurses, and if so, on
what terms.
The deaths for the last five years will be found in Table I.
Table II. shows the cases of infectious disease notified during
the year.
Table III. gives the various causes of death at all ages, and
Table IV. those under one year.