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PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF
TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS.
No case of Tuberculosis was notified in any person
to whom these regulations apply.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1925, SECTION 62.
No action was taken under this Section.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Infant Welfare Meeting's are held in the Public Hall
on Tuesday afternoons, under the superintendence of
Miss Edith Hoole, a member of the District Council,
and for expectant mothers the meetings are monthly,
on Tuesday mornings—Miss Ethel Vernon, M.D.,
B.S., Lond., is the physician in charge.
The Infant Welfare Centre was opened in 1916; the
ante-natal at end of 1924. In 1925 the average weekly
attendances were:—Mothers, 108; children, 123. At
the ante-natal meeting the average was seven mothers.
2,037 visits were made to children under one year, of
which 331 were first visits, and 1,863 visits were made to
children between one and five years; 299 visits to
expectant mothers, of which 82 were first visits.
Enquiries were made into 14 infant deaths; in none
of these had the mother attended the Welfare Centre.
Enquiries were also made as to eleven still-born. In
one case only had a mother attended the Centre in the
early months of her pregnancy.
No case of Puerperal Fever was notified. There were
two case of Ophthalmia Neonatorum. WhoopingCough
was prevalent in the last six months, and
Measles in the last two months of the year, but caused
no death.