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16.
Health Visitors.
No, of infants under 1 year of age visited
for first tine 1,234
Total visits to infants under 1 year of age. 11,028
Total visits to children 1 to 5 years of age 30,860
No. of expectant mothers visited 650
Total visits to expectant mothers 2,142
Infant Life Protection.
No, on Register
Foster Mothers
Foster Children
1st Jan. 1951.
12
10
ttst Dec. 1951.
10
11
Child Minders (Dally Guardians).
No. of daily guardians - voluntary 3
statutory 1
No. of children minded - voluntary 38
statutory 1
Care of Premature Infants.
No. of premature births during.the year 114
No, of deaths under 1 month 13
Immunisation and Vaccination.
For details of immunisation and vaccination see pages
38 and 40.
Domestic Help Service.
The service covering the Boroughs of Bethnal Green,
Poplar and Stepney has been divided into three districts,
irrespective of borough boundaries, and the statistics for
each separate borough are not available.
However, the number of cases in which help was provided
in the "southern" district (which comprises the Borough of
Stepney less the area east of the Canal and two areas north
of the east-west line - Whitechapel High Street, Whitechapel
Road and Mile End. Road),- was as follows:-
Maternity (including expectant mothers) 10
Tuberculosis 7
Other 573