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Notified by doctors, 156; Notified by parents, 37;
Notified by midwives, 97.
Number of still-born notified, 13; by midwives, 6;
by doctors, 7.
Infant deaths: Legitimate, 12; illegitimate, 1;
total, 13.
Death Rate per 1,000 Births: Legitimate, 37;
illegitimate, 90; total 40.
Midwives practising in the District: Trained, 2;
untrained, 1.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Average weekly attendance of expectant mothers, 30.
Average weekly attendance of children, 95.
Puerperal Fever.—One case, which recovered.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—Three cases, all recovered
completely.
Measles.—Twenty-four cases (including German
Measles), with one death between one and two years
of age, and one death between 5 and 15 years of age.
Whooping Cough was not prevalent, and caused no
death.
Diarrhœa has caused but one death under one year
of age (in 1916), in the last four years.
Poliomyelitis.—Two cases, at 10 and 36 years, and
no death registered.
There was one death that occurred, in a nursing
home outside the District, from extra-uterine
gestation.