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Home Helps.
Number of cases in which Home Helps have been provided during the
year, nil.
Midwives.
(a) Number practising in the area served by the Council for maternity
and child welfare at the end of the year, 22.
(b) Number (i) employed by the Council, nil; (ii) subsidised by the
Council, nil; (iii) employed by Voluntary Associations, nil.
(c) Number of cases during the year in which the Council paid or
contributed to the fee of a midwife, nil.
Administration of Part I of the Children Act, 1908, as amended by Part V
of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932.
(a) Number of persons on the Register who were receiving children for
reward at the end of the year, 6.
(b) Number of children on the Register: (i) at the end of the year, 7;
(ii) who died during the year, nil; (iii) on whom inquests were held
during the year, nil; (iv) returned to parents during the year, 8;
(v) removed to institutions during the year, 1; (vi) adopted during
the year, nil.
(c) Number of Infant Protection Visitors at the end of the year who
were: (i) Health Visitors, 6; (ii) Female, other than Health
Visitors, nil; (iii) Male, nil.
(d) Number of persons (in addition to or in lieu of Visitors under (c)
above) or societies authorised to visit under the proviso to Section
2 (2) of the Act of 1908, nil.
(e) Proceedings taken during the year: No. of cases, nil; Act and
Section under which proceedings were taken, nil.
(f) Number of cases in which the local authority has given a sanction
during the year: (i) under (a) of Section 3 of the Act of 1908, nil;
(ii) under (b) of Section 3 of the Act of 1908, nil; (iii) under (c) of
section 3 of the Act of 1908, nil.
(g) Number of orders obtained during the year under Section 67 of the
Act of 1932: (i) from a court of summary jurisdiction, nil; (ii) from
a single justice, nil.
(h) Number of inspections, 244.
Health Visitors and Home Visits.—There are four whole-time, one temporary
and five part-time Health Visitors employed by the Council, whose duties include
the carrying out of periodic visits to the homes of children of from 18 months
to 5 years of age. Children of from 18 months to 2 years are visited every 3
months and those from 2 to 5 years every 6 months. At these visits the Health
Visitors make enquiries into the health of the children and persuade the mothers
to attend the clinic, or otherwise obtain treatment of any illness or defect that
may be present. Many of the children of from 3 to 5 years attend school, but
routine visits are still made to the homes of these children.
The number of visits paid in 1936 by Health Visitors to children between the
ages of 1 to 5 years was 9,023.
Clinics.—There are 3 Infant Welfare Centres provided and maintained by
the Council at which children pf from 18 months to 5 years are seen.