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North South East West Total
(i) Under 1 year 1,301 (1,073) 974 (630) 638 (475) 830 (626) 3,743 (2,804)
(ii) 1-5 years 134 (135) 106 (90) 75 (55) 119 (82) 434 (362)
The number of children who attended at the Centres during the year and who,
at the end of the year, were:—
North South East West Total
(i) Under 1 year 1,133 (886) 973(649) 535(371) 756(500) 3,397 (2,406)
(ii) 1-5 years 1,511 (1,687) 1,018(888) 722(891) 873(883) 4,124(4,349)
(Figures in brackets are for 1945)
Home Visiting
Totals.
1. First Visits, infants under 1 year 4,904
2. Re-visits ditto. 11,335
3. Visits to children between 1st and 2nd years 7,369
4. Visits to children between 2nd and 5th years 13,840
5. Visits re stillbirths 104
6. Visits re deaths of infants under 1 year 39
7. Visits re deaths of children between 1st and 5th years 8
8. Ante-natal first visits 2 666
9. Ante-natal re-visits 1,419
10. Visits re Puerperal Fever cases 14
11. Visits re Puerperal Pyrexia cases 53
12. Visits re Home Help and Domestic Help cases 380
13. Visits re Approved Daily Guardian Scheme 46
14. Incomplete visits 3,480
15. Ineffective visits 13,901
16. Total number of mothers and children effectively visited 42,330
17. Clinic Sessions attended 5,678
Health Visitor Staff.
In order to cope more effectively with the increase in Maternity and Child
Welfare work both at the clinics and to enable visiting to be carried out at reasonable
intervals, the Council approved an increase in the Health Visitor establishment from
28 to 32, both figures including the four Superintendents of the four Welfare Centres.
It was not possible, however, to employ the full establishment at any time owing to
general insufficiency of Health Visitors.
Six Visitors resigned during the year and eight were appointed.
Child Life Protection.
The supervision of foster mothers is closely linked with the supervision of the
problems of illegitimate children and unmarried mothers, and it has therefore been
thought desirable that this work should be done by the same Health Visitor staff.
To ensure more adequate attention being paid to the special problems concerned,
two Visitors were allocated to this work in place of one previously. The table of
foster mothers and foster children being cared for is as follows:—
Number of persons on register prepared to receive children
at end of 1946 31
Number of foster children being cared for at end of year 34