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Retained Placenta 1
Malpresentation 2
Collapse 2
Threatened Abortion 1
Abnormal Pelvic Measurements 1
Post Partum Haemorrhage 4
Ruptured Perineum 21
Rise of Temperature 6
Inflamed Eyes 3
Miscellaneous 7
Total 76
The total fees paid to doctors by the Corporation during
the year under Section 14 (1) of the Midwives Act, 1918,
amounted to £65 17s. 9d. The amount recovered from the
patients' relatives was £11 l1s. 6d.
Home Visitation.-—The record of home visitation work
carried out by the Health Visitors during 1933 is as follows:
Number of births notified 570
„ „ „ registered 389
„ „ „ visited 563
„ „ „ re-visited—under 1 yr. 756
„ „ „ —over 1 yr. 1,151
„ „ visits to Ophthalmia cases 8
„ „ visits to expectant mothers 101
„ „ re-visits to expectant mothers 25
„ „ ineffectual visits 786
„ „ special visits 165
Total welfare visits 3,555
„ „ school visits (half-day) 216
„ „ visits to parents of schoolchildren
133
„ „ Tuberculosis visits 88
„ „ Puerperal Fever visits 2
„ „ visits re Children Act, 1908 327
766
Total of all visits 4,321
Centres.—The work carried out at the Centres during
1933 is indicated in the following table:—
25