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Maternity and Child Welfare. 61
as well as the homes of women who apply for admission
to maternity homes, and the maternity wards of the General
and Lying-in Hospitals. Home visits are also made for investigating
applications for milk under the Milk (Mothers and
Children) Order, and in connection with Convalescent and Dental
treatment. Visits are also made to see if homes are suitable for
children to return to after minor operations at general hospitals.
The Health Visitors also carry out the visits required under
the Children and Young Persons Acts, and each of them has been
appointed Infant Life Protection Visitor to enable them to perform
these duties.
Periodical visits are also made to Creches and to other
Institutions for mothers and children.
Those Health Visitors, whose districts are in the Parishes
of Clapham and Wandsworth, for which I am Vaccination Officer,
carry out the home visits which are necessary in order to secure
compliance with the Vaccination Acts.
An additional Health Visitor was appointed during the year
in order that more visits could be made to toddlers. As a result
approximately 2,000 more visits were made to children under 5 years
of age than in the previous year.
Table XXVIII. summarises the work of the Health Visitors
during the year in the six divisions of the Borough.