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WORK OF THE HEALTH VISITORS.
During the year part of the time of six to seven lady Health
Visitors has been given up to school medical work. Their duties
in this connection have mainly been attendance at school medical
inspections, the visitation of children who are absent from school
because of suspected infectious disease, and for the following up
of those in whom defects have been discovered at the school
medical inspections. Each district Health Visitor is responsible
for the visitation of all the school children in her particular area.
To cope with the extra work at the newly opened treatment centre
an extra Health Visitor was appointed towards the end of the year,
and she is devoting practically the whole of her time to the work
there. Part of the time of the Health Visitors has been taken up
in the clinics held at the Town Hall for the treatment of defects of
the eyes and teeth. The work of the Health Visitors is set out in
detail in the following Table (E. xvi).