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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The Work of the Health Visitors.
The staff of Health Visitors consists of a Superintendent and
13 Health Visitors.
These officers perform all first visits to Infants and are also
responsible for revisiting, except in the area of the Balham Infant
Welfare Centre, where the revisiting of those infants who are
in regular attendance at the Centre is carried out by the Trained
Superintendent, an officer appointed by the Committee of the
Centre.
The Health Visitors visit all cases of Puerperal Fever,
Puerperal Pyrexia, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Measles and
Whooping Cough on notification, as well as known cases of
Diarrhoea in children under five. They also visit the homes 'of
women attending the ante-natal Centres in the Borough and of
those who apply for admission to maternity hospitals and homes,
or are applicants for Milk, Convalescent or Dental treatment.
Visits are also made to see if homes are suitable for children to
return to after minor operations at general hospitals. Day
Nurseries and other Institutions for mothers and children are
also visited, when they are operating.
One or more of the Health Visitors attends at each of the
infant and ante-natal sessions held at the Centres throughout
the Borough.
Each Health Visitor has been appointed Infant Life Protection
Visitor for her district and performs the duties relating
to Child Life Protection under Part XIII. of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1936.
They also make the necessary enquiries required to secure
compliance with the Vaccination Acts for the whole Borough,
except in Putney where Mr. Taylor is the Vaccination Officer,