[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunbarton County Council.

  • Dumbartonshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunbarton County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is required, and the relative information is set out in the consecutive order specified by the circular, with the addition of several tables giving fuller details. 1. Births.—(a) Number registered—(i) legitimate, 1401 ; (ii) illegitimate, 55. (6) Number notified, 1395. (This figure includes 309 births which occurred in institutions out- with the area.) (c) Number classified according to nature of attendance—doctor only, 349; midwife only, 436; both doctor and midwife, 301 ; not attended by either doctor or midwife, nil. (d) Number of still-births (births of dead children) 79; 3 of which Avere transferred out of the area, and 40 transferred in; giving 42 cases actually occurring within the County. 2. Infantile Mortality.—(a) Number of deaths, 1104; (b) rate per 1000 births, 74; (c) number of deaths and rates per 1000 births classified according to age-groups and causes of death (see Table VII). 3. Maternal Mortality.—(a) Number of deaths resulting from miscarriage or childbirth), 6; (6) number of deaths resulting from puerperal sepsis, 4. 4. Repeat under Midwives (Scotland) Act, 1915.—There are 21 midwives practising in the county; 19 of these are qualified by examination. The others were in practice when the Midwives (Scotland) Act passed, and thus were auto- matically added to the Midwives’ Roll. The following gives the details of the Annual Report on the working of the Act during 1940 as required by the Central Midwives Board :•— Report. BIRTHS IN DISTRICT Total number of births registered in 1940, - - 1401 Actual number of births attended by midwives during 1940, ------- 436 Total number of deaths of new-born children (within ten days) during 1940, 22