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BREAST FEEDING.
The information
is obtained by the Health Visitors when the child has reached
six months, and is based on the total notified births (1,962) for the
year.
Care of Illegitimate Children (Circular 2866).
The present scheme of co-operation between the Maternity and
Child Welfare Department and the moral welfare worker of the
Tottenham Deanery Board continued to work well. During the
year the number of cases referred by the health visitors to the moral
welfare worker was 32.
Babies who remained with the mother 53
Babies who were adopted 13
Babies who were fostered 3
Babies who died 4
Unknown, as mother had left the district 1
Total 74
Referred to Moral Welfare Officer 32
Referred to other organisation 15
Other arrangements made 27
Total 74
Child Life Protection.
The health visitors paid 189 visits as Infant Life Protection
Visitors during the year to 33 foster mothers in respect of 34 foster
children. The number remaining on the register at the end of the
year was 23 foster mothers in respect of 24 foster children, namely,
12 under 5 years of age and 12 over 5 years of age.