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(f) Infant Welfare Centres.
The total number of attendances at the Infant
Welfare centres during 1943 was 33,085, compared
with 31,179 in 1942.
(g) Home Visiting.
The total number of visits paid during 1943 was
17,308, a decrease when compared with the figure of
17,950 for the year 1942.
Home visiting is the basis of a maternity and child
welfare scheme and I am sorry that there was a decrease
in the number of such home visits. The
circumstances are first that health visitors were used
in our drive for diphtheria immunisation, and second
that for a part of the year we were without our full
complement of health visitors.
(h) Circumcision Clinic.
This clinic was carried on regularly during the
year 1943, and 134 cases received treatment.
(i) Supplementary Clothing Coupons for Expectant
Mothers.
From the 1st January to the 24th July, 1943,
clothing coupons were issued by your officers to 773
patients, 5 of which were in respect of twin pregnancies.
From the 25th July, 1943, onwards the Food
Executive Officer became responsible for these issues.
(j) Issue of Vitamins to Expectant Mothers and
Children.
The Government Scheme for the issue of cod liver
oil and fruit juices to expectant mothers and to
children under five years of age continued throughout