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Health Visiting.
Four Health Visitors and School Nurses were employed and the following
shows the number of visits paid by them in connection with maternity and child
welfare and tuberculosis.
First visits to infants under one year 556
Subsequent visits to infants under one year 2,168
Children between the ages of 1 and 5 years 3,424
Expectant Mothers 619
Post-Natal Mothers 291
Tuberculosis cases 270
Foster children 62
Diphtheria Immunisation 481
Scabies 21
Measles 23
Whooping Cough 35
Home and Domestic Helps 167
Still-births 19
Miscellaneous visits 185
8,321
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 5
Number of foster children on the Register :
(a) at the beginning of the year 4
(b) at the end of the year 5
(c) who died during the year —
No legal proceedings were taken.
Dental Treatment.
Where necessary, expectant and nursing mothers and children arc referred
to the Dental Surgeon for treatment and during the year this was done in 120
cases, compared with 84 cases in 1945.
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, and grants
toward the cost of their maintenance was made in three cases.
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.