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SECTION 24
HEALTH VISITING.
Health Visitors.
During the year the Health Visitors made 15,367 visits to
homes.
(a) To expectant mothers :—
First visits 119
Total visits 178
(b) To children under 1 year of age :—
First visits 1,309
Total visits 6,897
(c) To children between the ages of 1 and 5
years 5,189
(d) Other visits :—
Whooping cough 10
Measles 7
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Discharging eyes 27
Diarrhoea
Puerperal Pyrexia 16
Children's Act 16
After deaths 51
After stillbirths 29
Miscellaneous 761
Ineffective 2,069
Old people 39
Hospital follow-up 78
Chest Clinic.
In addition to the above the Health Visitors attached to the
Chest Clinic at 180, High Road, Leyton, interviewed 3,374 patients
at the Chest Clinic, made 3,385 home visits and interviewed 3,050
patients at home.