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Table 32.—Laboratory Facilities.
Specimens examined during the year were as follows :—
Sputa for detection of tubercle bacilli 48
Swabs „ „ „ diphtheria bacilli 393
Fasces „ „ „ typhoid bacilli 65
Urine „ ,, ,, ,, ,, 2
Cerebro-spinal fluid 5
Blood (Widal) 5
„ (Blood-count) 3
Smears 1
Total 522
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Table 33.—Home-Visiting.
A summary of the work performed by the three Health Visitors
during the year is given below:—
Visits to expectant mothers 503
First visits to newly-born infants 374
Revisits to infants under 1 year 2,387
Visits to children aged 1 to 5 years 3,262
Still-birth inquiries 14
Special visits to cases of measles 917
„ ,, ,, whooping cough 110
„ ,, ,, ,, „ pneumonia 20
Visits to foster children 72
Visits in connection with infectious diseases other
than those above specified 683
Total visits 8,342
Table 34.—Notification of Births.
(a) Registered in Borough:— Live Still
Births. Births. Totals.
Number of births registered during 1942
as occurring in the Borough 382 9 391
Number of such births not notified in accordance
with the Public Health Act,
1936, Part VII 3 — 3
(b) Notified.
Number of births, live and still, notified during the year—
by medical practitioners
by midwives 407
by other persons 1
Total notified 413
Number of still-births notified during the year 9
Percentage of still-births to total births occurring in the Borough 2.2