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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.
Eighty-three babies were notified at birth as congenitally
malformed. Of these, five were stillborn and eight subsequently died,
six deaths being the direct result of the abnormalities notified. The
remaining two babies died from other causes.