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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme has progressed a step
further during the year under review.
The opening of the new Municipal Welfare Centre in Villa Street,
and the appointment of an Assistant full-time Medical Officer has
increased the efficiency of the service, inasmuch as the additional medical
sessions in this particular district have become an accomplished fact.
The Council have realised that more medical sessions are a necessity
at several other centres, especially in the northern end of the Borough,
and for this reason they are contemplating the establishing of new centres
in the near future.
The two up-to-date and well-equipped Municipal Antenatal Clinics
are doing good work and we are looking forward to the completion of the
new health services department, when another Antenatal Clinic will
become available.
The Voluntary Maternity Hospitals, with which the Borough is well
supplied, are dealing with a large number of cases, and out of a total of
2,349 confinements, 872 mothers were confined in these Hospitals, and
547 in the L.C.C. Hospitals.
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
Resulting from 2,318 live and still births, 4 mothers lost their lives
—a mortality rate of 1.7 per 1,000 births.
This figure compares very favourably with that for England and
Wales, which is 3.81.
The Borough maternal mortality rate is a distinct improvement on
that of last year.
One death occurred as a result of Puerperal Fever, and three were
due to other causes.
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia Regulations.
The Council have made full provisions under these Regulations.
During the year under review, 13 cases of Puerperal Fever and
17 cases of Puerperal Pyrexia were notified. Of these, 11 cases of