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CONTENTS.
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Members of the Health and Maternity and Child Welfare
Committees 7
Staff 7
Prefatory Letter 10
Section A. Vital and Other Statistics and Social Conditions.
Vital Statistics 14
Population 15
Births 15
Premature Births 16
Stillbirths 17
Infantile Mortality 18
Maternal Mortality 18
Deaths 19
Meteorological Conditions 19
Open Air Recreational Amenities 20
Section B. General Provision of Health Services for the Area.
Ambulance Service 22
Laboratory Services 23
Supply of Insulin 23
Nursing in the Home 23
Old People's Homes 24
Clinics and Welfare Centres 26
Domestic Help Scheme 30
Hospitals—Voluntary and Isolation 30
Nursing Homes 31
Health Services administered by Kent C.C. 31
Section C. Maternity and Child Welfare.
Ante-Natal Clinics 34
Administration of the Midwives Acts, 1902-1936 34
Municipal Midwifery Service 35
Domiciliary Medical Practitioner Service (Midwifery)
36
Analgesics, Administration of 36
Supply of Sheets to Expectant Mothers 37
Home Helps Scheme 37
Maternity Hospital Provision 37
Dental Treatment (Expectant and Nursing
Mothers) 38
Care of Premature Infants 39
Puerperal Pyrexia 39
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 39
Pemphigus Neonatorum 39
Welfare Centres 40
Clinic Treatment of Children under 5 years 41
Home Visiting by Health Visitors 41
Child Life Protection 42
Adoption of Children 43
Care of Illegitimate Children 43
Day Nurseries 43