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Every child found to have a congenital abnormality is
followed up and in the case of local hospitals, detailed reports
are submitted as a routine. For hospitals elsewhere the necessary
information has been made available on request. These cases are
kept under periodic review until a decision can be made that the
child is either developing normally and no special help is required,
or until special educational treatment etc., appears to be indicated,
when arrangements are made for the appropriate section or department
to accept responsibility for the future care and guidance of the
case concerned.
All cases of congenital abnormalities are reported to the
Registrar General in order that a check may be maintained nationally
of any change in the pattern of these very often distressing conditions.
These reports are submitted in a form which makes it impossible for
anyone to identify a particular case.
It is pleasing to record the very highest co-operation of all
concerned in this most important work.
Seventy-four babies were notified at birth as congenitally
malformed. Of these, four were stillborn and three subsequently died,
one death being the direct result of the abnormalities notified. The
other two babies died from other causes.