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mechanism of labour. The classes are held in conjunction with the
ante-natal clinics at the respective welfare centres. One-hundredand-fifty
sessions were held during the period under review
involving a total of 855 attendances.
Toddlers' Clinic.
The toddlers' clinic continued at West Avenue Welfare
Centre and sessions are held fortnightly on a Friday afternoon.
VIRUS INFECTIONS DURING PREGNANCY
Ministry of Health Enquiry
The follow-up continued.
CONFINEMENTS
The following table shows the location of confinements during
1956:—
Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital 1,256
Other Hospitals and Maternity Homes 380
Total in Hospital, etc 1,636
At Home 331
Total Confinements 1,967
VITAL STATISTICS
Walthamstow England & Wales
(Provisional)
Live birth-rate per 1,000 population 11.8 15.7
Still birth-rate per 1,000 total births 17.6 23.0
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live
births 18.7 23.8
Extracts from vital statistics are given more fully in Section
"A" of this Report.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS
1,992 births (529 of which belonged to other Areas) were
notified during the year under the Public Health Act, 1936.
Notifications were received as follows: Doctors, 350; Mid'
wives, 1,623: Others, 19.
Also included are 30 still-births, five of which belonged to
other areas. Of the total, 11 occurred outside the Borough.
NEO NATAL MORTALITY
The number of infants dying under one month during 1956
was 18, i.e., a rate of 13 per 1,000 live births.