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Act, 86-o per cent, of the births registered being notified.
The notifications were received from—
Midwives. Doctors. Lying-in Hospitals. Poor-Law Institutions. Parents.
1,144 596 117 6 98
The visitation of infants was to some extent interfered
with by the epidemic of Measles, which prevailed
throughout the borough during the first six months of
the year, but 1,857 first visits, and 7,676 subsequent
visits were paid by your three Health Visitors.
The feeding of the infants at the time of the first
visit was found to be as under :—
Breast fed 1,573
Hand and breast fed 147
Hand only 137
The work of your Health Visitors was actively
supplemented by the infant welfare work carried on by
the Voluntary Associations of the Borough.
675 babies attended the consultations held by the
doctors attached to the Hammersmith Welfare Centre
and the Women's League of Service Welfare Centre,
who made in all 7,076 attendances, and some of these
were visited by the nurses attached to the staff of the
Centres. Ante-natal clinics are held at Glenthorne
Road Centre, and Sulgrave Road Centre, and at the
latter a Dental Clinic is held, and dinners are provided
at a small cost for nursing and expectant mothers.
Arrangements have been made by the Borough Council
for the treatment at the School Treatment Centre,
Carnforth Lodge, of children under school age suffering
from minor ailments, dental defects, and enlarged tonsils
and adenoids requiring operation.
The question of providing one or more nurseries
for the children of women engaged on munitions and
other work has been under the consideration of the
Council, but no premises suitable for the purpose have
as yet been found.
Deaths of Illegitimate Infants.—Of the 251 infants
who died before attaining the age of one year, 50, or 19 per
cent. were illegitimate, the mortality among them being