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No notifications have been received during the
year (in accordance with Rule 18) as to deaths, still
births, or infectious diseases, from the midwives.
With respect to the work done, I have had no
special information as yet, but I have found them all
attentive to advice and general instructions, and
alive to their responsibilities, but no detailed instruction
has been given.
I had on one occasion to suspend from practice
for three weeks one midwife, who had been in close
personal contact with a case of scarlet fever in a
house where a confinement had occurred. After a
thorough course of disinfection, etc., she was allowed
to resume her work.
I have received no complaints of inattention or
neglect, and no case of illness or disease attributable
to their attendance has come to my knowledge.
Number of Midwives on the list—10.
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.—The provisions
of this Act have been carefully complied
with and a register kept of workshops and factories,
together with a list of the outworkers. Visits of
inspection have been made, and under sec. 22 of the
Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, adopted
by the District Council, the number of nuisances
occasioned by want of suitable sanitary accommodation
in workshops were 17, all of which were remedied
by the owners on the necessity being pointed out.
The total number of workshops now on the register
are 189 as against 182 in 1904.
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