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During the year 123 sessions for Welfare patients were held,
the number of patients on the roll at the end of the year being 36.
The total attendances numbered 3,532, the average number per
session being 28.7.

Treatment in these cases was by the mercury vapour lamps.
Arrangements are made for massage treatment of children
attending the light treatment centre immediately after their
treatment by light.
Particulars relating to tuberculous patients treated at the
Clinic during the year will be found on pages 62 and 119.
Infant Life Protection.
By the Order which is referred to on page 76, various powers
previously administered by the London County Council were
transferred to the Metropolitan Borough Councils, including those
conferred by the Children Acts, 1908 and 1932, relating to Infant
Life Protection.
Under the provisions of these Acts any person undertaking for
reward the care and maintenance of a nurse child under the age of
9 years is required to give prior notice to the Local Authority
(formerly the London County Council) of the reception or removal,
and immediate notice of the death of any nurse child to which the
Acts apply, and the Local Authority are given power to regulate the
number of nurse children who may be received for payment by any
person registered by the Council as a foster mother, and to refuse
to register, or to remove from the register, any person whom they
consider unsuitable. Penalties are provided for breaches of the
requirements of the Acts.
The Order gave power to the Council to take into their service
the Infant Life Protection Visitors already employed by the London
County Council and serving in the Battersea area, but the Council
elected to entrust the work to their existing staff of Health Visitors,
under the supervision of the Medical Officer of Health, and the
duty was, as a preliminary measure, allocated to one of their more
experienced Health Visitors (Miss J. Round).