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7. Maternity and Child Welfare.
Notification of Births Number
Live births notified 1049
Still births notified 32
Notified by Doctors 314
Notified by Midwives 767
Infant deaths (figures supplied by Registrar General)
Legitimate 73
Illegitimate 6
Work of Health Visitors—
Visits paid to expectant mothers 350
Visits paid to infants under one year first visits 1178
do Total Visits 6863
Visits paid to children, of 1—5 years 5996
Municipal Homes, Hospitals and Day Nurseries none
Maternal deaths from Sepsis 3
do from other causes 4
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Six cases were notified of which 5 were slight cases
treated at home which recovered with vision unimpaired.
The sixth case was admitted to hospital and after treatment
recovered with some scarring of the corneae.
Orthopadic cases.
There are ample facilities for the treatment of such cases
in the London Hospitals. In addition some cases are treated
locally in the old church hospital.