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Initial visits are paid as soon as possible after the Doctor and
Midwife have ceased attending—usually about the tenth day.
Children who progress favourably are, as far as possible, visited once
a quarter during the first year of life and half-yearly afterwards
until attaining the age of five. Infants and children who do not
progress favourably are visited as frequently as possible, the
maximum number of visits paid to any one child during 1930
being 15.
In addition, visits in connection with the following matters are
also carried out:—Supervision of Nurse Children (since 1-4-30),
enquiries in connection with applications under the Assisted Milk
Scheme, ante-natal work, ophthalmia neonatorum, puerperal fever
and pyrexia, provision of home helps and enquiries as to Maternal
Deaths, Stillbirths, and Neo-natal deaths.
The detailed findings at first visits paid during 1930 are given in
the following table:—