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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Health Visitors.
These officers, two in number, work under the control of the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee of the Council. Their duties are:—
(1) To visit the homes of all newly-born children where considered necessary.
(2) To make enquiries concerning stillbirths and deaths of infants and young children.
(3) To visit and give advice to parents in cases of ophthalmia of the new-born, infective
enteritis and other important diseases.
(4) To investigate all cases of puerperal fever and puerperal pyrexia.
The Health Visitors attend several consultations weekly at the Paddington School
for Mothers; they also attend alternately once a fortnight at the Infant Consultation
Centre at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital.
The work performed by the Health Visitors is summarised in the appended tables, which
also show how many infants were breast-fed and other interesting information.

DIED BEFORE END OF YEAR: 69.
Breast 52 Artificial 12 Mixed 5
CAUSES OF DEATH.
Diarrhœal Diseases 11 Whooping Cough 1
Respiratory „ 25 Measles —
Atrophy, Debility 4 Premature Birth 6
Congenital Defects 5 Other Causes 17
Institution Deaths 50 (Paddington Hospital 32).