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CONTENTS.
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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 10
Summary of Statistics 10
Social Conditions 11
Meteorology 11
Occupations and Unemployment 12
Population 12
Part II.—Vital Statistics 13
Births 13
Stillbirths 14
Deaths 15
Infantile Mortality 16
Maternal Mortality 17
Part III.—Maternity and Child Welfare 18
Details of Services 18
Centres and Clinics 19
Ante-Natal Clinic 20
Natal Services 22
Midwives 22
Midwives Acts, Administration of 23
Midwives, Inspection of 24
Maternity Hospital and Maternity Homes 25
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 26
Post-Natal 27
Home Visiting 27
Welfare Centres 28
Milk in Necessitous Cases 29
Minor Ailment Treatments 29
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 30
Diarrhœa and Enteritis 30
Children Act, 1908, Part I 30
Part 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 35
Nursing in the Homes: District Nursing Association 36
Tuberculosis Dispensary 37
Venereal Diseases
37
Part V.—Sanitary Circumstances 37
Rivers and Streams 37
Drainage and Sewerage 38
Water 38
Scavenging 38
Rats and Mice Destruction Act, 1919 38
Nuisances 39
House to House Inspection 39