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Welfare clerk makes a precis of the Health Visitors'
reports and forwards them to the institutions
concerned. The increase in the clerical work of
the Maternity and Child Welfare Department is a
great strain on the clerical staff, which has not been
correspondingly increased. I place on record my
appreciation of the loyal work, both in official
and unofficial hours, carried out by the Health
Visiting and clerical staff of the Department.
We are very fortunate in having a dependable
and helpful staff of voluntary workers, viz:—
Miss Christian Wickham, Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Tait,
Mrs. Falcon, Mrs. Pearson, and Mrs. Pope ; and
we offer them our thanks for their devoted service.
We have also to thank the members of the Fulham
Free Church Women's Guild, who so kindly provide
teas at a nominal cost for the mothers attending
the Infant Welfare Centres.
Health Visitors.
The Health Visitors' work has been very
difficult during 1933 as Miss Perrett's post, which
she vacated on 1st April on her appointment as
Infant Life Protection Visitor, had not yet been
permanently filled at the end of the year, and
for nine months we had locum tenens Health
Visitors working in the department, with occasionally
as many as three temporary officers at one
time.
We have a highly trained and experienced
staff of women on the health visiting staff, and
it was fortunate for Fulham that we were able
to transfer Miss Perrett to the Infant Life Protection
work, thus bringing to it her long years
of knowledge of the Borough. All the Health
Visitors are fully trained nurses and have the
certificate of the Central Midwives' Board, in
addition to possessing the Health Visitors'