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1. Activities directly initiated by the Borough Council:
(a) Provision of three Health Visitors, as in former years.
(b) Provision of a Maternity Home.
(c) Supply of Free Milk to necessitous Mothers and Young
Children.
(d) Treatment and Nursing of Children under School Age.
2. Activities of Voluntary Agencies in receipt of grants-
in-aid from the Borough Council:
(a) Infant Welfare Centres.
(b) Day Nurseries.
3. Activities of independent Voluntary Agencies:
(a) Rescue Homes.
(b) Convalescent Treatment for Invalid Children.
Health Visitors.—Three Health Visitors were engaged, as
in former years, in visits of enquiry to Births, Infant
Deaths, cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Puerperal Fever,
and other diseases of mothers and young children; they have
also taken an active part in the work of the Voluntary
Infant Welfare Centres.
1 have advised the Council that the number of Health
Visitors is too small. It is impossible for three Health
Visitors to adequately visit and keep under observation
over 2,000 new babies each year, and also keep in touch
with all children up to the age of five years.
A large proportion of deaths of children under 1 year
occur in the first few weks, and it is during this period
that the advice of the Health Visitors is most essential.