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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Work of the Health Visitors.
• The duties of the Health Visitors are as follows :—
Infant Visiting.—Infants are visited as soon as information
of birth is received either by notification or from the Registrar
of Births and Deaths, and re-visits are made before the end of
the first year and then up to school age.
The re-visits of infants attending the Infant Welfare Centres
are carried out by the Superintendents of the Centres. In three
of the twelve Centres in the Borough the Superintendents are
appointed by the Committees of the Centres and the re-visits
of infants attending these Centres are made by them.
In each of the other nine Centres, one of the Health Visitors
is now acting as Superintendent in accordance with the Council's
decision made in 1927 to replace Superintendents appointed by
the Centre Committees with Health Visitors as vacancies occur.
All the re-visits in these districts are therefore carried out by
the Health Visitors, whether the infants are attending the Centres
or not.
The nine Centres where one of the Health Visitors is the
Superintendent are Fairlight Hall, Beechcroft Road, Springfield,
Fairfield, Southfield, Streatham Hill, Putney, Blegborough
Road and Riggindale Road, Streatham. At those Centres where
the Superintendent is the officer of the Centre Committee, one
of the Health Visitors assists her at all Infant Welfare and AnteNatal
sessions. Where the Superintendent is one of the Health
Visitors she is assisted at the sessions by another Health Visitor.
Infectious Diseases—All cases of Puerperal Fever,
Puerperal Pyrexia, Whooping Cough and Ophthalmia Neonatorum
are visited on notification, as well as all known cases of
Measles and Diarrhoea in children under five.
Other Home Visits.—The Health Visitors visit the homes
of mothers attending the ante-natal Centres in the Borough,