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Light Treatment.
By arrangement with th© 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 7,470 home
visits to mothers and children. 2,747 of these visits were to babies
under one year of age, 4,335 to children of from 1 to 5 years, and
388 were ante-natal visits to expectant mothers.
Free Food.
Free food, consisting mostly of dried milk, Virol or malt and
ood liver oil, was issued during the year to necessitous, expectant
and nursing mothers attending the Ctentres, at a cost of £117 2s. Od.
Cow's milk was issued similarly at a cost of £132 Is. lid. Free
dinners were also supplied to necessitous mothers at the Feeding
Centre in White Hart Lane at a cost of £16 16s. Od.
Children and Young Persons Acts, 1908 to 1932.
The Health Visitors have continued to act as Infant Life
Protection Visitors during the year. The number of fostermothers
and foster-children on the register at the end1 of the year
was 16 and 17 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 good work continues
to be done. The question of providing a new Day Nursery is
again under consideration, and I sincerely hope that satisfactory
premises will be erected at an early date.