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Parry and Miss Peal. In addition, the Welfare Working Party
meets at the Mattock Lane Centre every fortnight and gives valuable
help by making suitable garments for distribution at cost price,
or free of charge, to children whose mothers are in necessitous
circumstances.
The following is a Summary of the Work of the Health
Visitors during the year :—
Visits to children under 12 months— Total
First visits 1,644
Return visits 2,856
Visits to children 1 to 5 years of age 6,455
Visits to expectant mothers 856
Visits to investigate infant deaths and still-births 96
Special visits or investigations 263
Visits to cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum 20
Visit to case of Pemphigus Neonatorum 1
Visits to cases of Measles and Whooping Cough 64
Visits to cases of Scarlet Fever on discharge from the
Isolation Hospital 393
Inspections of Women's Lavatories 69
Visits to children under care of foster-mothers 630
Other visits 7
Total Visits 13,354
Interviews, etc., at Centres 3,505