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The average period spent in the home during the year by each
pal lent was 14,3 days.
Maternity cases sent to the County Hospital, Farnborough, Kent*
through the Council's Ante-Natal Clinic totalled 26,
Health Visiting,
One Health Visitor and a part-time nurse were employed up to
the 31st May and from then to the end of the year, two Health
Visitors, The following shows the number of visits paid:-
First visits to infants under one year 369
Subsequent visits to infants under one year 1,471
Visits to children between the ages of 1 and 5 years 2,079
Visits to expectant mothers 383
Visits to Post-Natal mothers 113
Visits to Tuberculosis cases 314
Visits to foster children 61
Visits re Diphtheria Immunisation 153
Visits re Scabies 79
Miscellaneous visits 232
5,247
Child Life Protection.
dumber of foster parents on the Register:
(a) at the beginning of the year 3
(b) at the end of the year 5
Number of foster children on the Register:
(a) at the beginning of the year 5
(b) at the end of the year 6
(c) who died during the year-
No legal proceedings were taken.
Dental Treatment.
Where necessary, expectant and nursing mothers and children
are referred to the Dental Surgeon for treatment, and during the
year this was done in 85 cases.
HOUSING.
There were no new houses or flats erected or houses Converter
into flats during the year,
1, Inspection of dwellinghouses during the year:
(1) (a) Total number of dwellinghouses inspected for
housing defects (under Public Health or
Housing Acts) 468
(b) Number of inspections made for the purpose 502
(2) (a) Number of dwellinghouses (included under subhead
(1) above) which were inspected and
recorded under the Housing Consolidated
Regulations, 1925 and 1932 Nil
(3) Number of dwellinghouses found to be in a state so
dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for
human habitation Nil
(4) Number of dwellinghouses (exclusive of those referred
to under the preceding sub-head) found not to be in
all respeots reasonably fit for human habitation 431
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