[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.
- Cumberland County Council
- Date:
- 1929
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![General Provision of Health Services. X<) cliauge of auy note has occurred duriug- the year. Maternity and Child Welfare. Tliere were at the eud of the year 19f;9 on the roll 99 iiiidwives. All the Midwives are visited by the Inspector every tliree nionlhs, and special visits are paid when deemed necessary. During tlie year 396 routine and 57 special visits were paid. The numlier of noti(;es received under Rule 23 of the Central Midwives Roard is as follows Medical help .. 360 Still-birth .. 27 Liable to^ be a source of infection .. 26 Artificial feeding 23 Laying out dead body 25 Payments made to doctors under vSection 14 of the Midwives Acts amounted to ,t‘629 Os. 9d. During the year the following visits were paid to the homes : — To Births notified ... By Health Visitors. ... 99(1 By District Nurses. 1618 First visits To births not notified 38 43 Re-visits ... 5641 .. 16336 Ante-natal visits 76 7050 Visits to children 1-5 ... 2807 3836 In my last report I dealt fully willi the subject of Maternal Mortality and acting on instr-actions from your Health and Housing Committee, issued a report during the year on “ A Complete Scheme of Maternity and Child Welfare.” That rejmrt was accepted by your Health Committee and subsequently adopted in its entirety by the County ('ouncil, and is only wmitiug tlie sanction of tlie Ministry of Heal til to be put into operation. Provision is made in the scheme to ])rovide for jiraetically every eventuality and il the w'omen will accept the help offered to them, there caniml be any doubt that an immense amount of suSeriiif'' und ill-health will](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29132903_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
