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Home Visiting by Municipal Health Visitors: TOTALS:
1. Births, First Visits, Infants under 1 year 3,301
2. Births, Re-visit3, Infants under 1 year 4,2l6
3. Visits to children between 1st and 2nd years 2,692
4. Visits to children between 2nd and 5th years 6,540
5. Visit re Stillbirths 70
6. Deaths, Visits re Infants under 1 year 40
7. Deaths, Visits re children 1-5 years 4
8. Anrc-natal Home. Visits 1,516
9. Puerperal Fever, Home Visits 20
Puerperal Pyrexia, Home Visits 11
10. Attendances at Welfare Centres 305
11. Other work by direction (which includes Clinics and Visits re
Diphtheria Immunisation) 5,456
12. Visits declined 4
13. Visits-house shut 5,927
14. Visits inopportune 40
Total Visits 30,142
The work of the Health Visitors during the summer of 1944 was again greatly
hampered, this time by the Flying-bomb attack. Evacuation of expectant mothers
and young children, as well as school children, was re-commenced, and there was a
great deal of movement among the population. Health Visitors during this period
gave their time in rotation to the Casualty Services, and during the height of the
attack one health visitor was detailed to be always available in this connection, if
required. Another Health Visitor (from one of the Voluntary Welfare Centres) was
seconded at the request of the Ministry of Health to open a home in a Preoption area
for evacuated expectant mothers. Nevertheless, the work done by the Health Visitors
increased during 1944.
CHILD LIFE PROTECTION:
Number of persons on register prepared to receive
children at end of year 25
Number of children at end of year 34
TRAINING OF STUDENT HEALTH VISITORS.
At the request of the Royal College of Nursing, two students attended during
the year of 1944. The North Centre and South Centre and the Council's Health
Visitors all co-operated in the training of these students.
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