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Health Visiting.
Three Health Visitors and School Nurses were employed (four after the 1st
July, 1945) and the following shows the number of visits paid, in connection
with maternity and child welfare and tuberculosis.
First visits to infants under one year
402
Subsequent visits to infants under one year
2,099
Children between the ages of 1 and 5 years
2,880
Expectant Mothers
684
Post-Natal Mothers
256
Tuberculosis cases
275
Foster children
36
Diphtheria Immunisation
554
Scabies
127
Measles
25
Whooping Cough
24
Home Helps
131
Still-births
14
Miscellaneous visits
246
7,753
Child Life Protection.
Number of foster parents on the Register :
(a) at the beginning of the year
4
(b) at the end of the year
4
Number of foster children on the Register :
(a) at the beginning of the year
4
(b) at the end of the year
4
(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 84
cases.
Care of Illegitimate Children.
The Council is co-operating in the arrangements adopted by the Kent
County Council for the care of unmarried mothers and their children.
Care of Premature Infants.
Steps have been taken to implement the suggestions contained in Circular
20 /44 of the Ministry of Health. Arrangements have been made for Penge babies
born outside the Joint Maternity Hospital to be admitted thereto when requiring
institutional care.
Home Helps.
Part-time Home Helps are employed in connection with maternity cases
and during the year their services were provided in 14 cases.