[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Medical Relatives and District. Practitioners, Midwives, others. Total. Chesterton Rural 217 61 60 338 Caxton and Arrington Rural 44 34 19 87 Linton Rural ... 58 83 9 150 Melbourn Rural 80 9 10 99 Newmarket Rural ••• 173 ' 122 9 304 Swavesey Rural 46 — 2 48 618 299 109 1026 Of the total notifications 60 per cent. were received from medical practitioners, 29 per cent, from midwives, and 11 per cent, from relatives and others. After excluding duplicates the total number of births notified was 1,018, or 77 per cent, of the total registered. A considerable deficit was to be looked for until the requirements of the Act should be fully understood by the public. During the second half of the year, approximately 84 per cent, of the births registered were notified, compared with 91.1 per cent, in Cambridge Borough, where the Act has been in operation for seven years, and this may be regarded as a satisfactory result. As in the Borough, steps are taken to ascertain unnotified births, the parents being then reminded of the legal require- ments. The Registrars gave infoimation regarding 263 such births, and the Health Visiting Staff discoveied 8 others. The total number of births coming to the knowledge of the County Medical Officer of Health from all sources numbered 1,289. Of these, 108 were not visited, as the parents were in good circumstances, or the infant had died, or for other reasons.