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HEALTH VISITING
(a) Sessions Worked
Number of sessions (half days) devoted to:
(i) Health visiting 7,274
(ii) Child welfare centres 3,156
(iii) Ante-natal, post-natal, relaxation etc. clinics 449
(iv) School clinics 933
(v) Other school nursing 1,907
(vi) Health education (including mothercraft) 568
(vii) Other work (including clerical) 4,700
Total sessions 18,987
(b) Cases visited for the first time in the year
" " "(i) children born in 1961 791
" " "1962 1,319
" " " 1963 1,728
" " " 1964 2,073
" " " 1965 2,672
" " " 1966 4,091
(ii) persons aged 65 or over 2,348
(iii) others (excluding school nursing cases) 2,285
(c) Number included in item (b)
(i) mentally disordered persons 203
(ii) persons discharged from hospital (other than mental
hospitals) 375
(iii) tuberculous households 11
(iv) households visited on account of other infectious
diseases 5
(d) Number included in item (b) and where appropriate item (c) who
were visited at the special request of a G.P. or hospital:
(i) persons aged 65 or over 456
(ii) mentally disordered persons 49
(iii) persons discharged from hospital (other than mental
hospitals) 158
EFFECTIVE
INEFFEC Tl VE
(e) Total number of visits to:
(i) children under 5 years of age 28,471 4,996
(ii) persons aged 65 or over 5,993 1,355
(iii) others (excluding school nursing cases) 5,271 573
Total effective visits 39,725 6,924
(f) Sessions attended at G.P's surgeries (included above) 275
(g) Phenylketonuria
(i) children tested at home or clinic 3,881
(ii) special visits to homes to collect specimens 502
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