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30 Sanitary Circumstances.
11,536 loads of refuse were collected and burnt. During the
year a Slab Making Plant has been installed for making Paving'
Slabs from the Clinker produced by the Destructor. Plant was
in operation for about two months, and during that time 3,500
Slabs were made.
COLLECTION OP HOUSE REFUSE.
This is a vexed question, and reaches its height during the
summer, when there are only gas fires used in many houses, and
where there are no gardens for burying organic refuse.
When the Council acquires electrically-propelled dust vehicles
it is sincerely hoped that a twice weekly collection will be obtained
instead of once weekly, especially during the summer months
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
In August last a circular letter was received from the Local
Government Board on these questions.
The Board outline what they describe as a complete scheme
as follows:—
1 Arrangements for the local supervision of Midwives.
2 (a) An antenatal clinic for expectant mothers.
(b) The home visiting of expectant mothers.
(c) A maternity hospital or beds at a hospital, in which
complicated cases of pregnancy can receive treatment.
3 (a) Such assistance as may be needed to ensure the mother
having skilled and prompt attendance during confinement at home.
(b) The confinement of sick women, including women having
contracted pelvis or suffering from any other condition involving
danger to the mother or infant, at a hospital.
4 (a) The treatment in a hospital of complicatio>is arising after
parturition, ivhether in the mother or in the infant,