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Family Planning.
The Family Planning Clinic which was established in the District
at the end of 1945 held sessions on the second Tuesday in each month
throughout 1946. A total of 60 new cases was seen, 45 for advice on birth
control, the latter being desirable on medical grounds only, and 15 owing
to sub-fertility. A total of 110 attendances was made at the 12 sessions,
all being by appointment.
Health Visitation.
In theory the Council continued to employ 5 Health Visitors during
1946 but, owing to sickness and a resignation, for more than half the year
a maximum of 4 Health Visitors were doing their best to maintain the
standard of the service. The following table of visits paid during the
year reveals that statistically the work suffered as, in spite of the increased
number of births the total number of visits dropped by 1,394.
First visits to babies actually increased by 254, however, although the
percentage visited dropped slightly from 94 per cent. to 90 per cent. It
is when the revisits to babies, and particularly to the older children, are
compared that it is seen with regret how these had to be reduced by over
a thousand visits. Fortunately there was less need for visits to cases of
infectious disease, otherwise the work would have had to suffer still more.
961 first visits to babies.
1,925 visits to babies under 1 year.
3,452 visits to children from 1 to 5 years.
252 ante-natal visits (176 first visits, 76 re-visits).
29 visits to cases of Whooping Cough (22 first visits, 7 re-visits).
34 visits to cases of Measles (24 first visits, 10 re-visits).
3 visits to cases of Puerperal Pyrexia.
18 investigations re infant deaths.
25 investigations re still births.
215 miscellaneous visits.
32 visits to cases of Tuberculosis (21 first visits, 11 re-visits).
6,946 Total visits.