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Light Treatment.
By arrangement with the Middlesex County Council, mothers
and children are sent, as occasion arises, to the North Middlesex
Hospital for artificial sunlight treatment.
Home Visiting.
During the year the Health Visitors made a total of 7,139
home visits to mothers and children. 2,539 of these visits were to
babies under 1 year of age, 4,147 to children of from 1 to 5 years,
and 453 were ante-natal visits to expectant mothers.
Free Food.
Free food, consisting mostly of dried milk, Virol and malt
and cod liver oil, was issued during the year to necessitous, expectant
and nursing mothers attending the Centres, at a cost of
£111 14s. 7d. Cows' milk was issued similarly at a cost of
£131 11s. 5d. Free dinners were also supplied to necessitous
mothers at the Feeding Centre in White Hart Lane at a cost of
£3 8s.
Children Acts, 1908 to 1932.
The Health Visitors have continued to act as Infant Life Protection
Visitors during the year. The number of foster-mothers
and foster-children on the register at the end of the year was 15
and 16 respectively.
Day Nursery.
The work of the Day Nursery has been carried on as in previous
years at Stuart Villa. The accommodation here is far from satisfactory,
but in spite of this very useful work continues to be done.