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All children are immunised against diphtheria and against
whooping cough, and quarantine for all infectious disease has been
cut out completely. Parents are informed when casos of whatever
the infection may be have occurrcd and they are warned that they
bring their children to the nursery at their n risk but that
every care possible will be taken of their children if they are
brought. Tho result ha3 been that no nursery has been closed or
had empty places for quarantine reasons, during the whole year and
moreover there has been no observable excess of infectious illness
of any kind as the result. Every child is isolated the moment
there is any sign of illness while the mother is sent for to take
him home, which ha3 no doubt done something to limit the spread
of infection, but experience seems to indicate that exclusion of
contacts and other quarantine measures are not so important as
they are ordinarily deemed to be.
Hostel for nursery probationers.
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With the opening of nurseries came tho attondant 3taff
difficulties and among thorn the accommodation needed for the
probationers in the hutted n0rserie3.
Fortunately the nurses home at the St. Thomas's Babies'
Hostel was empty save for a welfare centre on the ground floor
and, having 24 single bedrooms most of them with fitted wadibasins
and ample bathing arrangements as well that difficulty was easily
overcome. The finding after a few false starts of a suitable
housekeeper prepared to shoulder the responsibility of caring for
a group of girls from sixteen to eighteen or nineteen years was
a stroke of good fortune and the hostel is happily a success.
SUMMARY OF WORK DONE BY THE OFFICIAL HEALTH VISITORS.
Ante-natal visits 1,052
Ante-natal re-visits 155
Births Ist visits 1,395
Births revisits 185
Births stillborn 65
Ophthalmia 1st visits 48
Ophthalmia re-visits 33
Infantile deaths visits 23
Welfare Centres attendances 197
Diphtheria prevention clinic attendances 162
Post-natal visits 1,488
Visits to children 1-5 years 304
Puerperal Pyrexia visits 21
Puerperal Pyrexia re-Visits 1
Special visits:- evacuation, scabies, etcl,387
One of the four official health visitors is still seconded
for temporary duty in a reception area.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of inspections (including
war damage to property, etc.) 10,003
Total number of re-inspection 23,070 \
Total number of intimation notices served 2,611
Total number of nuisance notices served 335
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