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The visiting and supervision of necessitous children under 5 years of age
upon discharge from the Borough Poor Law Hospitals.
The provision of convalescent home treatment by means of subsidy to voluntary
agencies.
The above-mentioned activities are dealt with in detail in the following pages.
Advice Cards.—Besides the posting of cards of advice to the mothers of all infants
whose births have been notified, cards of advice to expectant mothers have been distributed
through University College Hospital, Middlesex Hospital, the Maternity Nursing Association,
and other agencies.
Home Visiting.—The Council's Health Visitors at the Welfare Centres are full-time
workers (18 in number1, who divide their time between the necessary work at the Centres
and visiting the homes of the mothers and children. In addition there was one full-time
and one part-time trained worker, not paid by the Council, at the Caversham Road Centre,
one part-time trained voluntary (unpaid) worker at the Chalton Street and Grafton Road
Centres, and one part-time (untrained) voluntary worker at the Camden Road Centre. There
were also two trained visitors at the University College Hospital Centre, who worked in
neighbouring boroughs as well as in St. Pancras, and whose salaries were paid by the hospital
authorities, and not by the Council, and two trained visitors at the Royal Free Hospital.
During 1928 the Council's staff at the various Centres made 30,485 visits to 2,862
children, and 2,743 visits to 1,339 expectant mothers ; the trained workers not paid by the
Council made 11,656 visits to 601 children, and 449 visits to 235 expectant mothers.