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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
DEPARTMENT.
STATISTICAL INFORMATION.
Birth Rate (per 1,000 population) 16.52
Number of deaths under one year of age 79
Number of still births registered 44
Infantile death rate per 1.000 live births 43.43
Number of maternal deaths 5
Maternal death rate per 1,000 total births 2.69
CO-ORDINATION.
Co-operation with the School Medical Service for specialist
and dental sessions; and co-operation with all hospital as well as
Social Service Associations in the area has remained a constant
source of help.
Maternity Hospital Service.
This Las continued to function as heretofore. The facilities
provided by the Mothers' Hospital, Clapton, and the North
Middlesex Hospital have proved adequate, and were distributed
as follows:—
The Mothers' Hospital, Clapton:—
Under the Council's Scheme 65
Own arrangements 10
North Middlesex County Hospital 154
Other outside Institutions 109
Evacuated for Confinement under the L.C.C.
Scheme 486
THE HEALTH VISITORS' DEPARTMENT.
During the year the health visitors have been fully occupied
in their duties of safeguarding the health of the mothers and of the
children under five. Their work has included the home visitation
of:—
1. Expectant and nursing mothers; and children up to
five years of age for many special, as well as routine
reasons.