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In connection with this particular branch of public health
work there are some important duties of an educative or nonmedical
character which are performed by certain voluntary
workers. Prominent amongst those workers are Mrs. Adnams,
Mrs. Ludlow, Mrs. Narroway, Mrs. Parry and Miss Peal, to whom
are due the thanks of the Council. The Welfare Working Party
has continued to give valuable help to the Centres by knitting
suitable and approved garments for babies and young children
to be sold at cost price or supplied free of charge to mothers in
necessitous circumstances and to its members gratitude has also
to be expressed.
The following is a Summary of the Work of the Health
Visitors during the year :—
Visits to children under 12 months :— Total
First visits 1,760
Return visits 3,498
Visits to children 1 to 5 years of age 6,529
Visits to expectant mothers 650
Visits to investigate infants deaths and still-births 90
Special visits or investigations 185
Visits to cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum 23
Visits to cases of Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia Nil
Visits to cases of Measles and Whooping Cough 194
Visits to cases of Scarlet Fever on discharge from the
Isolation Hospital 265
Inspections of Women's Lavatories 89
Visits to children under care of foster-mothers 588
Other visits 32
Total Visits 13,903
Interviews, etc., at Centres 3,830