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Creches:—
Day Nursery, Memorial Hall, High Street, Shadwell.
Jewish Day Nursery, 23, New Road.
Port of London Day Nursery, 5, Pier Head, Wapping.
Marie Hilton Creche, Stepney Causeway.
St. Paul's Day Nursery, Wellclose Square.
Special investigations into maternal deaths were carried out in four
instances during the year, and reports sent to the Ministry of Health. 9 deaths
occurred—2 from sepsis and 7 from other causes.
Maternal
mortality
The Borough is well provided with Maternity and Child Welfare Centres,
there being 7 Municipal Centres and 9 Voluntary Centres. Each centre has
its own particular area and there is no overlapping in the visiting of the
districts. Details of the work of the Health Visitors and Centres are given on
pages 30 and 31.
Health
Visiting
Maternity and Child Welfare.
Form M.C.W. 96 (revised).
Return (!) showing the arrangements made for maternity and child welfare
by the Council and by Voluntary Associations providing maternity and child
welfare services in respect of which the Council pay contributions under Section
101 of the Local Government Act, 1929, or otherwise; and (2) giving particulars
of the work done during the year 1931.
Maternity
and Child
Welfare
Services.
1—Population of the area served by the Council: Census, 1931, 225,203.
2 —Number of births notified in that area during the year under the Notification
of Births Act, 1907:—
(a) Live births, 3,844. (b) Still births, 134. (c) Total, 3,978.
(d) By midwives, 2,633. (e) By doctors and parents, 1,345.
3.—Health Visiting.
(l) Number of officers employed for health visiting at the end of the year:
(a) by the Council, 11.
(b) by Voluntary Associations, 15.
(ii) If any of the Health Visitors are engaged on other work during part of
their time, state the equivalent of whole-time services devoted by the
whole staff to health visiting:—
(a) in the case of Health Visitors employed by the Council, 11.
(b) in the case of Health Visitors employed by Voluntary Associations,
14.5.
(hi) Number of visits paid during the year by all Health Visitors:—
(a) To expectant mothers:—First visits, 1,625. Total visits, 3,640.
(b) To children under 1 year of age:—First visits, 5,323. Total
visits, 21,243.
(c) To children between the ages of 1 and 5 years:—Total visits,
40,190.