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CONTENTS.
PAGE
Members of the Health and Maternity and Child Welfare
Committees 4
Prefatory Letter 5
Staff 8
Part I.—Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area 9
Summary of Statistics 9
Social Conditions, and Town Planning Scheme 11
Meteorology 12
Occupations and Unemployment 12
Population 13
Part II.—Vital Statistics 14
Births 14
Stillbirths 14
Deaths 15
Infantile Mortality 16
Maternal Mortality 17
Part III.—Maternity and Child Welfare 17
Details of Services 17
Centres and Clinics 18
Ante-Natal Clinic 19
Natal Services 21
Attendance at Birth 22
Midwives 24
Midwives Acts, Administration 24
Maternity Hospital and Maternity Homes 26
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 27
Post-Natal 28
Home Visiting 28
Welfare Centres 28
Minor Ailment Treatments 29
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 30
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 30
Children Act, 1908, Part I 30
Pari- IV.—Summary of General Provision of Health Services 31
Legislation in Force 31
Hospitals 32
Maternity and Nursing Homes 32
Institutions, Various 34
Ambulance Facilities 34
Laboratory Facilities 34
Clinics and Centres 34
Nursing in the Homes : District Nursing Association 35
Tuberculosis Dispensary 36
Venereal Diseases
36
Part V.—Sanitary Circumstances 37
Rivers and Streams 37
Drainage and Sewerage 37
Water 37
Scavenging 37
Rats and Mice Destruction Act, 1919 38
Nuisances 38
House-to-House Inspection 38