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As, up to the end of 1947, no addition had been made to the fuel allowance
under the Government scheme, the Committee decided to supplement these allowances,
bringing them up to 5s. instead of only the 3s. 6d. allowed under the scheme.
This supplementary allowance of 1s. 6d. per week was made in about twelve cases.
The allowances mentioned above granted to certain pulmonary cases under
Memorandum 266/T were continued during the year, the total cost repaid by the
Treasury being £2,477 17s. 6d.
V.—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
STATISTICS
Population 44,610
Birth Rate 23.18
Stillbirth Rate (per 1,000 births) 29.74
Deaths of infants under one year
of age 43
Live births, legitimate 981
Live births, illegitimate 63
Stillbirths, legitimate 28
Stillbirths, illegitimate 4
Infant mortality rate 41
Maternal mortality—deaths Nil
Maternal mortality rate (per 1,000
live births) Nil
HOME VISITING
The Health Visiting Staff consists of a Superintendent Health Visitor and eight
District Visitors. The number of visits paid during the year was 16,677. Of these,
1,000 were first visits, 5,101 were subsequent visits to infants under one year, and
6,293 were visits to children between 1 and 5 years of age.
ANTE-NATAL AND POST-NATAL SUPERVISION
Four ante-natal clinics in charge of part-time medical staff were held at the
Model Welfare Centre, on Monday morning and afternoon and Wednesday and
Friday morning. Since 1945 post-natal cases have also attended the ante-natal
clinic.