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CONTENTS.
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Members of the Health and Maternity and Child Welfare
Committees 5
Prefatory Letter 6
Staff 10
PartI.—Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area 12
Summary of Statistics 12
Social Conditions 13
Meteorology 14
Unemployment 15
Occupations 15
Population 19
Part II.—Vital Statistics 20
Births 20
Stillbirths 21
Deaths 22
Infantile Mortality 23
Maternal Mortality 24
Part III.—Maternity and Child Welfare 25
Details of Services 26
Centres and Clinics 26—28
Ante-Natal Clinic 28
Natal Services 29
Midwives 29
Midwives Acts, Administration of 29
Midwives, Inspection of 31
Maternity Hospital and Maternity Homes 31
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 32
Post Natal 32
Home Visiting 32
Welfare Centres 35
Milk in Necessitous Cases 36
Institutional and Convalescent Treatment 36
Minor Ailment Treatments 37
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 37
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 37
Children and Young Persons Act, 1932 38
Part IV.—Summary of General Provision of Health
Services 38
Legislation in Force 38—41
Hospitals 41
Maternity and Nursing Homes 41—42
Institutions, various 43
Ambulance Facilities 43
Laboratory Facilities 43
Clinics and Centres 44
Nursing in the Homes: District Nursing Associations 44
Tuberculosis Dispensary 46
Venereal Diseases 46