Report upon maternity and child welfare for the year 1929 / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1929
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Credit: Report upon maternity and child welfare for the year 1929 / Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Public Health Department. County Hall, Newport, 8th May, 1930. To the Chairman and Members of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee. I have pleasure in presenting to yon the Fifteenth Annual Report upon the work done in connection with the Notification of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915, and the Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 1918. A—SUMMARY OF BIRTHS NOTIFIED During the twelve months ended 31st December, 1929, there were notified to this Department, 6,596 births, as follows :— LIVING STILLBIRTHS TOTAL No. officially notified by persons in attendance 6188 324 6512 No. not directly notified to the County Medical Officer, but information received from other sources, viz., District Registrars ... ... 72 2 74 Health Visitors ... ... 10 — 10 6270 326 6596 Of the 6,512 notifications to this Department, midwives were responsible for 6,468, registered medical practitioners for 43 notifications and parent for 1 notification. The percentage of births notified by midwives is 99, which is a high figure compared with the percentage for England and Wales. The number of' live births registered with the District Registrars during the year was. 6419. of which 96.4 per cent, were notified in c ompliance with the Notification of Births Acts. Of the remainder, 82 births were subsequently discovered, 72 through the District Regis¬ trars, and 10 through the Health Visitors, leaving 2.3 per cent, of the registered births unaccounted for. This, is slightly below the figure for 1928, but is still higher than is usual for the County.