View report page

10
(c) Number of Child Protection Visitors at the end of
the year who were:—
(1) Health Visitors 3
(2) Female, other than Health Visitors 0
(3) Male 0
(d) Number of persons (in addition to or in lieu of
Visitors under (c) above) or Societies authorised
to visit under the proviso to Section 209 ( 2) of the
Public Health Act, 1936 0
(e) Proceedings taken during the year:—
(1) Number of Cases 0
(2) Act and Section under which proceedings
were taken —
(iv) Midwives Act, 1936.
The following gives a summary of the cases attended by the
Council Midwives, as Midwives, and as Maternity Nurses during
1941:—
As Midwives 412
As Maternity Nurses 64
(v) Inspection of Nursing Homes, Etc.
Two Nursing Homes in the District are Registered by the
Essex County Council under Section 187 of the Public Health Act,
1936. One of these is Registered for the reception of 5 Maternity
or Medical Patients, and an annex to this Home is. Registered for
5 Maternity Patients. The other is Registered for 2 Maternity
Patients. The third, referred to in last year's report, was discontinued
during the year.
Quarterly inspections of the two Homes were carried out on
behalf of the Essex County Council as before, and investigations
were again made in respect of Maternal Deaths, Cases of Puerperal
Pyrexia, Eye Discharges of Infants, and Liability of the Midwives
to be a Source of Infection, etc., which occurred generally throughout
the District.
(vii) Day Nursery.
During the latter part of the year, arrangements were being
made for the establishment of a War-time Nursery in this area. A
house near the centre of the town was selected for this purpose, and,
at the end of the year, sanction had been received from the Ministry
of Health for the necessary adaptations and appointment of staff.
It is anticipated that this Nursery will be in working order early
in 1942.