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D. Babies showing the following difficulties or defects
during the post-natal period:
27. Difficulties in sucking and swallowing.
28. Convulsions.
29. Cerebral palsy.
30. Meningitis or Encephalitis.
31. Any serious illness or infection in first few
months of life.
Children remain on this register until the age of five
years when the information is transferred to the school health
records.
The total number of children on this register at 31st
December 1966 was 2948.
Of the 2256 children born alive in the borough during 1966,
1228 were added to the "at risk" register, a percentage of 54.4.
Many of these develop normally and can be taken off the register
when it is sure they are within the normal range.
The register is used to indicate children in the 0-5
age group who are likely to require special educational facilities.
This also forms a basis for co-ordination between the mental health
section and the other sections and departments concerned with the
welfare and observation of pre-school children.
Congenital Malformations
54 babies were notified at birth as congenitally malformed.
Of these, 9 were stillborn and 5 subsequently died, all the deaths
being a direct result of the abnormality notified. 40 babies had
survived at the end of 1966. Details according to the RegistrarGeneral's
classification are as follows: