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Maternity and Child Welfare. 61
cation, as well as all known cases of Measles,Whooping Cough 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, 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 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 carry out the duties relating to Child
Life Protection, under the provisions of Part XIII of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1936, and to enable them to perform these
duties, each of them has been appointed Infant Life Protection
Visitor.
Periodical visits are also made to Creches and to other Institutions
for mothers and children.
The Health Visitors also have to perform certain duties under
the Vaccination Acts. The Council has now appointed me as
Vaccination Officer for the whole Borough, with the exception of
Putney, i.e., for the Divisions of Clapham, Wandsworth, Tooting,
Streatham and Balham, and the home visiting required in order to
secure compliance with the Vaccination Acts in these districts is
carried out by the Health Visitors, each working in her own area.
Table XXVIII. summarises the work of the Health Visitors
during the year in the six divisions of the Borough.