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Milk supplied to Necessitous Mothers and Children
During the year 7,520 applications were received and were dealt
with as follows:—
Granted free 6889
,, at half-price 596
Refused (over scale) 35
7,520
Dried Milk, Virol, &c.
The following amounts of dried milk, &c., were distributed to the
mothers attending the Infant Welfare Centres, during the year 1928:—
Ambrosia 3,115 1 lb. packets
Cow and Gate 1,944 ,,
Glaxo 473 ,,
Lactagol 88 tins
Trufood 1,331 1 lb. tins
Virol 14 28 lb. tins
Radio Malt 358 tins
Maternity Home.
Particulars of cases admitted during the year 1928:—
Cases in Home on 1st January, 1928, 8.
Cases admitted, 261.
Average stay, Two weeks.
Cases delivered by midwives, 256.
,, ,, ,, doctors, 5.
Cases in which medical advice sought, 91.
(a) Ante-natal, 4.
(b) During labour, 6.
(c) After labour, 1 (Eclampsia).
(d) Stillbirths, 3.
(e) Fœtal deaths, 5.
(f) Influenza, 1.
(g) Sutures, 71.
Cases notified as puerperal sepsis, Nil.
Temperature rose above 100.4 for 24 hours, 1 (Influenza).
Cases of Pemphigus Neonatorum, Nil.
Notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Nil.
Inflammation (eyes), Nil.
Infants not entirely breast fed, Nil.
Maternal deaths, Nil.