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Work of Health Visitors.
Seven whole-time Health Visitors are engaged in Maternity
and Child Welfare work, each being allotted a particular portion
of the Borough. Infants are visited by them as soon as
information of a birth is received, and at intervals, three or four
times during the first year of life. Further visits are made
subsequently, but at longer intervals, until the child reaches the
age of five years. The duties of the Health Visitors also comprise
visits to expectant mothers, to cases of Puerperal Fever, and
Ophthalmia, to applicants under the Milk Assistance Scheme,
and enquiries into infant deaths. Each Health Visitor attends
the Voluntary Infant Welfare Centre which is held in her district,
and also takes her turn in attending the Council's Infant Welfare
Clinic.

Dental Treatment.
The Council's Scheme for Dental Treatment provides for
financial assistance to enable nursing and expectant mothers to
obtain artificial dentures, and for extractions and fillings required
by mothers and infants. Arrangements have been made
with the local branch of the British Dental Hospital, and the
St. John's Hospital, to provide the treatment. During the year
free dental treatment was provided for 100 mothers and 64
infants, and assistance in obtaining dentures was authorised for
61 nursing mothers.