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Work, the opening of a new Centre at Old Coulsdon and a Post-natal
Clinic, it must be realised that the Health Visitors will have a considerable
increase in their duties, and will consequently have less time for home
visitation.
It is possible, therefore, that this may have to be slightly below
the standard desired for the interim period which inevitably precedes
an increase in staff. Care will, however, be taken to see that visitation
is reduced in those cases in which it is least required.
At present nearly all houses at which births are notified in this
District are visited at least once, and in the vast majority of cases the
advice given then, and at subsequent visits, or at the Maternity and
Child Welfare Centres, has been much appreciated.
Visits paid by Health Visitors.
600 first visits to babies
1,978 visits to babies under one year
4,268 visits to children from one to five years
247 Ante-natal visits—
148 first visits
99 re-visits
70 visits to cases of tuberculosis—
51 first visits
19 re-visits
81 visits to cases of measles—
58 first visits
23 re-visits
22 visits to cases of chicken-pox—
21 first visits
1 re-visit
50 visits to cases of whooping cough.—
39 first visits
11 re-visits
12 investigations of infant deaths
20 investigations of still-births
1 investigation of a case of ophthalmia neonatorum
346 miscellaneous visits
7,695 Total.
Child Welfare Centres.
Five Maternity and Child Welfare Centres have been established
by the Council, of which details are tabulated on the following pages.
The most recently established Centre is the one at Sanderstead, at
which the first session was held in November, 1936.
The increasing development in that part of the area, together with
the very high attendance at Selsdon, which needed relief, supported
by requests from residents, decided the Council in commencing this
new Centre. The experiment has been amply justified by the attendances
to date.
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