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The total number of visits in connection with school notifications
was 324; of which number Measles accounted for 305 visits. In
addition 19 visits were paid in respect of children reported by other
agencies than the schools.
Visits of Instruction re Management of Infants.—During the
year 1911, the homes of 504 recently born infants were visited by the
Lady Sanitary Inspector. In 428 cases re-visits were made. Altogether
in connection with this work 1067 visits were paid with a view to giving
simple instructions to the mothers in infant care and management.
Dinner tickets for nursing mothers (Mrs. Gordon's Association), were
given in suitable cases, and a very large number of babies were taken
regularly to the Infants' Consultations, held one afternoon a week, in
connection with the Chelsea Health Society. The mothers attend
fortnightly at the consultations, if the babies maintain a good condition
of health, and weekly if the baby is not thriving as well as could be
desired.
During the summer months, 62 cases of infantile diarrhoea were
brought to the notice of the Lady Sanitary Inspector, and 213 visits
were paid in connection with these cases. In all these cases advice was
given as to the proper manner of following the directions given by the
medical attendant. Of the 62 infants visited for summer diarrhoea, it is
satisfactory to record that not one case ended fatally.

From the above Table it will appear that the notifications under
the 1907 Act fell short of the registrations by the number of 220. In
1910 the discrepancy was 242. In proportion to the number of births
the notifications by midwives shewed an increase in 1911 as compared
with 1910, whilst the notifications by medical practitioners showed a
decrease.
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