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Ante-Natal Clinics
Attended by Midwife—Total attendances 4,205
Relaxation Classes
Attendances—Midwife in charge 1,525
CARE OF PREMATURE INFANTS
(1) Number of live premature babies notified during 1965 who
were born:—
(i) at home or in a nursing home 27
(ii) in hospital 192
(2) The number of those born at home or in a nursing home:—
who were nursed entirely there 19
who were transferred to hospital on
or before the 28th day 8
who died during the first 24 hours 2
who died in 1 and under 7 days 1
who died in 7 and under 28 days —
who survived at the end of one month 24
(3) Number of those born in hospital: —
who died during the first 24 hours 16
who died in 1 and under 7 days 8
who died in 7 and under 28 days 3
who survived at the end of one month 165
(4) Number of premature still births who were born: —
(i) at home or in a nursing home 2
(ii) in hospital 31
Notifications of intention to practise
In accordance with the rules of the Central Midwives Board,
168 midwives notified their intention to practise within the Borough
during the year 1965.
HEALTH VISITING
Miss B. N. Chandler, s.r.n., s.c.m., h.v.cert.,
dip. soc. studies (lond.)
Superintendent Health Visitor.
Under Section 24 of the National Health Service Act, 1946,
it is the duty of every Local Health Authority to make provision
in their area for the visiting of persons in their homes by Health
Visitors for the purpose of giving advice as to the care of young
children, persons suffering from illness and expectant and nursing
mothers and as to the measures necessary to prevent the spread of
infection.
The Health Visiting establishment is 40. At the beginning of
the year there were three vacancies which were filled by the end