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These figures include 9 deaths from Influenza, etc.,
which occurred outside the district, and are transferable
here, and also 3 deaths of persons who lived outside the
district.
The total deaths from Influenza for the year was
.71.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
4 cases reported during the year.
Chicken Pox.
This disease is not notifiable.
Whooping Cough.
This disease is not notifiable. There were 7 deaths
during the year.
Means for Preventing Mortality in Childbirth and
Infancy.
The Midwives' Act, 1902, is administered by the
Kent County Council. There are tour Midwives practising
in the districit.
Notification of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915.
The Council have 2 Health Visitors, who carry out
the necessary work under these Acts.
The number of births notified during the year was
G27, viz., 302 males, 321 females, and 4 in which the
sex was not stated. Of these 8 were still births
The Health Visitors paid 3,010 visits during the
year, made up as follows:—1st Visits after notification
of births, 680; 2nd and subsequent Visits, 2,005; visits to
Measles and other Infectious Case;, 157; visits to Antenatal
cases, 168.
Two Infant Welfare Centres are in working or lor,
one at Erith, and one at Belvedere. During the year
they have been open on 114 occasions, and 2,372 attendances
have been made at them, viz., 1,203 at Erith, and
1,169 at Belvedere.