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The district has been divided into eight areas, each
Health Visitor taking responsibility for one, all having
rather over 200 births annually. In the allocation of duties,
home visiting and clinic responsibilities have been coordinated,
so that in due course each Health Visitor becomes
fully acquainted with the detailed personnel of her district.
The numbers of home visits paid during the year by the
Health Visitors were:—
To Expectant Mothers:—
First Visits 700
Total Visits 1,196
To Children under 1 year of age:—
First Visits 2,009
Total Visits 6,008
To Children between 1 and 5 years of age:—
Total Visits 5,700
Special Visits:—
Ophthalmia Neonatorum and other eye
conditions 17
Puerperal Fever 3
Puerperal Pyrexia 7
Measles 148
Whooping Cough 93
Diarrhoea 46
General (unclassified) 337
INFANT LIFE PROTECTION.
The work of visiting children placed in the care of
foster-mothers is carried out by the Health Visitors, all of
whom have been appointed Infant Life Protection Visitors.
Visits paid during 1936:—
To Foster Children 1,109
To Foster Parents 792
At the end of the year there were on the register:—
Foster Children 82
Foster Parents 57
Number of Foster Children who died
during the year Nil
On whom inquests were held Nil
The circumstances of foster parents and prospective
parents have been carefully investigated, and when a house
appears unsuitable for the reception of children the advice is
given not to pursue the matter.
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