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The number of home visits made by Health Visitors to expectant
mothers during the year was 243.

Attendances at Municipal Ante-Natal Clinics.
Since 1930 the ante-natal records have been scrutinised year
by year to compile the above Table. It is not proposed to continue
it each year, although it may be worth comparing the figures in
another five years. There has been a very definite improvement
in the attendances since 1930. Although the annual number of
births has decreased from 1,757 to 1,420 in eight years, the percentage
of institutional births has increased from 30.73 to 53.9
(and the majority of these cases do not attend the municipal
ante-natal clinics), the total of completed cases has increased from
327 in 1930 to 460 in 1937. There is an even greater improvement
in the nature of the attendances. In 1930, 16.78 per cent, of the
primigravidse and 40.52 per cent, of the multiparas were unsatisfactory
in their attendance, while in 1937 the percentage of unsatisfactory
attendances had dropped to 8.76 per cent, of primigravidae
and 19.17 per cent, of multiparas. For the purpose of this table