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Work of the Health Visitors.
The work of the Health Visitors maintained its usual high level.
The staff comprised eighteen health visitors.
During the year three of the staff left; one to take up special
work, and two who married and moved to another district. Newlyqualified
health visitors were engaged through the Ministry of Labour
to replace them. The health visiting service suffered by the
temporary loss of two experienced members who were loaned to the
Tottenham Residential Nursery at Hertford, in turn, from the
19th of February to the 23rd of July during the illness of the matron.
Three health visitors attended the first year of the Lecture
Course for the Social Science Diploma, held at the Westminster
Commercial Institute.
Thirteen health visitor students from the National Health
Society and Battersea Polytechnic Institute received their practical
training in the department. Each student attended two days a week
for three months. This training was followed by a similar but
shorter course in the School Medical Department, and a final visit,
through the courtesy of Alderman A. J. Lynch, J. P., to the Juvenile
Court. Two groups of health visitor students from the Royal
College of Nursing attended practical demonstrations in the department
during the year.
The Superintendent of the war-time nurseries (a seconded
member of the health visitors' staff) attended the Summer School
organised by the Women Public Health Officers' Association at
Newnham College, Cambridge, from the 26th June to the 5th July.
The health visitors have maintained a friendly contact with
the eight war-time nurseries and their assistance in following up
absentees from the nurseries proved most helpful. Members of the
staff have given lectures on the Public Health Services to the
students training for the Nursery Nurses' Diploma of the National
Society of Children's Nurseries.