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clinic and a small grass plot. The Housing Committee have been asked
to arrange alternative accommodation for the families who will be
displaced from the houses at present occupying the site.
Plans have been approved for the erection of a one-storied building
and it is hoped that building operations will be commenced as soon as
accommodation has been found for the families occupying the houses.
Miss J. M. Cardozo, Chief Health Visitor, reports as follows:—
Home Visiting.—Owing to the Measles epidemic during the early
part of the year, the work of the Health Visitors was considerably extended.
2,586 visits were paid in connection with the L.C.C. Measles Scheme.
When visiting cases of Measles two things were noticeable:—
1. The mothers, with few exceptions, realised the importance of
sending early for the Doctor;
2. The efforts made to isolate the infected child as completely as
possible; a difficult proposition, as so many of the homes were
overcrowded.
Some of the happiest visits are those paid to the families who have been
rehoused. Here the mother transferred from one overcrowded room to a
modern flat is in real need of advice and help.
All expectant mothers known to us are visited, special visits being
paid to those who fail to keep appointments made for them at the Borough
Ante-Natal Clinics and at St. Andrew's Hospital.
Clinics.
Ante-Natal .—The attendances at these clinics have increased,
although fewer births were notified. All mothers are given an appointment
for future attendances and are carefully followed up. There are,
unfortunately, expectant mothers of whom we have no knowledge; some
we hear of later when they have attempted to terminate their pregnancy
themselves or have employed unskilled persons for this purpose. Continued
efforts on the part of the Health Visitors are made to teach our
mothers of the great danger they run through this interference with
nature and to impress upon them the importance of sending for a Doctor
at the first sign of impending miscarriage.