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empyema. The Maternal Mortality Rate was 1.6 per 1,000 births.
The rate for the previous year was 1.4.
POOR LAW RELIEF.
I am indebted to the Clerk of the Middlesex County Council
for the following figures, showing the particulars of outdoor relief
granted to Wood Green residents during 1933:—
Persons. Amount granted.
2,475 £15,360 11s. 4d.
The amount granted in 1932 was £17,339 18s.
ACCIDENTS DUE TO TRAFFIC.
The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has kindly
supplied me with the number of accidents due to traffic in Wood
Green, involving personal injury, during the year 1933.
There were 117 accidents in the High Road and 132 elsewhere
in Wood Green, as compared with 148 and 109 respectively during
1932, and the use of a Motor Ambulance was required on 144 occasions
as compared with 183 in 1932.
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE AREA.
Professional Nursing in the Home.
(a) General.
The Wood Green (Urban District) Charity Trustees employ two
district nurses whose services are available for sick persons in the
district who are under the care of medical practitioners. The