[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Dundee City.

  • Dundee (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1961
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Dundee City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There were 78 stillbirths (corrected for transfers), com- pared with 68 in 1960. The respective rates being 21 and 18 per 1,000 of all births (live and still). Fuller information into the causes of these pre-natal deaths is supplied in the Report on the Maternity and Child Welfare Section. The illegitimate birth rate has been increasing from 1957 when it was 4.7 per 1,000 births to 6.7 per 1,000 births in 1961. There was 1 maternal death during 1931 giving a maternal mortality rate of 0.27. In 1960 there were 2 such deaths. During the year there were 3,681 births (corrected! for transfers) compared with 3,744 in 1960. The 1961 figure gives a rate of 20.1 per 1,000 population compared with 20.5 in 1960. The number of births occurring to Dundee women within the City during 1961 was 3,765 and of these 525 (13.9%) were domiciliary confinements. The other births occurred in hos- pitals, etc. Attendances at the Corporation’s ten Day Nurseries con- tinue to fall. The number of attendances its 1961 was 67,283 compared with 69,897 in 1960. A nursery Clinic is held every morning at Nelson Street for the purpose of examining chil- dren before admission. The adaptations to the building at 134 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, were finally completed during the year and the staff and mothers are enjoying their new surroundings. The uses of this building were further extended later in the year when it was found possible to adapt another room to provide chiropody treatment for the elderly. The completion of the purpose built clinic im Hawkhih was delayed because of labour difficulties but it is anticipated that the clinic will be opened in 1962. The need for purpose built clinics in our new housing areas is an urgent one and it is pleasing to note that ground has been purchased for this purpose in Maims of Ftntry Housing Estate and sites earmarked in the proposed Ardler Housing Estate (to replace King’s Cross Hospital West Clinic), Derby Street C.D.A. (to replace the facilities granted in Butterburn Church Hall), Kirk Street C.D.A. and Happy- hillock, Longhaugh and Meneieshill Housing Estates. Stillbirths Maternal Deaths Births Domiciliary Midwifery Day Nurseries Clinic Premises