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CONTENTS.
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Members of the Health and Maternity and Child Welfare
Committees 5
Prefatory Letter 6
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 15
Deaths 15
Infantile Mortality 16
Maternal Mortality 17
Part III.—Maternity and Child Welfare 19
Details of Services 19
Centres and Clinics 20
Ante-Natal Clinic 21
Natal Services 22
Midwives 23
Midwives Acts, Administration of 23
Midwives, Inspection of 25
Maternity Hospital and Maternity Homes 26
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 27
Post-Natal 27
Home Visiting 27
Welfare Centres 28
Milk in Necessitous Cases 29
Minor Ailment Treatments 30
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 30
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 30
Children and Young Persons Act, 1932 31
Part IV.—Summary of General Provision of Health
Services 32
Legislation in Force
Hospitals
Maternity and Nursing Homes 32
Institutions, various 33
Ambulance Facilities 33
Laboratory Facilities 35
Clinics and Centres 35
Nursing in the Homes: District Nursing Association 35
Tuberculosis Dispensary
Venereal Diseases