[Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Montgomeryshire County Council.

  • Montgomeryshire (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1966
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Credit: [Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Montgomeryshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Illegitimate Children The following table gives details of the number of illegitimate children born in the countv during the last decade: Year Live 3irths Stillbirths Total T births Illegiti- mate 7 q f1 Legiti- Illegiti- Legiti- Illegiti- Legiti- Illegiti- total mate mate mate mate mate mate b“i rthc 1957 66l 23 26 «*. 637 23 3.3 1958 692 27 ll+ 1 706 28 3.8 1959 662 37 20 — 682 37 5.1 I960 673 32 18 - 691 32 4.1+ 1961 61+6 28 11 1 657 29 1+.2 1962 60U 35 15 1 619 36 5.8 1963 683 32 11 1 69!+ 33 1+ .5 1961+ 66 5 35 13 - 678 33 1+.9 1965 607 1+6 6 - 613 1+6 6.9q 1966 577 1+3 8 3 S8S 1+6 7.3 TOTALS 6,1+70 1 338 ll+2 7 6,6l^ 31+5 ’’.96 N.B. The above figures are those given b?/- the Registrar-General, ?' .e. they have been corrected for inward and outward transfers. SECTION 23 - MIDWIFERY Ante-natal and Post-natal Clinics These were conducted by general medical practitioners at the local hospitals and at their own surgeries. Close liaison was maintained between the various authorities concerned with the welfare of the expectant mother. District Nurse- Midwives also, in some districts, attend and assist at 'nte-natal sessions held at the general medical practitioner's surgery. Ante-natal Visits to Hones 668 ante-natal visits were made bv District Nurse-Midwives to patients in their own homes in 1966. Confinements The number of hone confinements still continues to fall ■'rear by year. The num- ber of institutional confinements in lr>66 was 391 as compared with 1±1 home confine- ments. Comparative figures for 1969 were 5$7 and 60 respectively. District Nurse-Midwives in this countv still continue to vis-1! patients dis- charged from hospital at the earliest opportunity because it is felt that this is the period when the mother is most in need of advice and re-assurance. In 1066, 352 of the mothers delivered in hospital ware discharged before the tenth day and visited by District Nurse-Midwives. More patients are now being admitted to hospi- tals for confinement only and mother and babv are discharged home after 1+3 hours. These cases are nursed by domiciliary Midwives. Good co—operation exists between the hospital Authorities and this Department and each discharge is notified. The marked decline in the number of cases delivered in their own homes con- tinued in 1966, and figures so far available for 196? chow a further significant drop in domiciliary cases. Problems arising from the necessity of maintaining a relatively large Local Authority Midwifery staff to deal with a small number of domiciliary cases have beer mentioned several times in Health Committee meetings and the subject has been dis- cussed with the Welsh Board of Health, and at Hospital Management Committee and