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8. Home Helps and Domestic Helps. Employed 57 (part-time).
No. of cases where helps were provided was 1193 including
one Home Help in a confinement case.
9. Institutions provided by Voluntary Associations and -subsidised
by the Council. The Council made a grant of
£200 per annum for one bed.
No. of women admitted from the Council's area 24
(2a month)
10. Maternal Deaths.
No. of women who died from sepsis Nil
" " " " " " other causes Nil
11. Illegitimate Children.
The Health Visitors work in close co-operation with the
local Moral Welfare Worker.
12. Care of Premature Infants. (Circular 20/44).
No. of premature babies notified whose mother is
normally resident in the Council's area 84
Total number of premature babies notified
who were born at home 3
In hospital or nursing home 81
No. of those born at home who were nursed
entirely at home 3
Died during the first 24 hours -
Survived at end of one month 3
No. of those born in hospital or nursing
home who died during the first 24 hours 5
(6 died after 24 hours but before end of 1 month)
Survived at end of one month 70
to 4th July 1949.
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