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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
County Hospital for artificial sunlight treatment.
Home Visiting.
During the year the Health Visitors made a total of 6,459
visits. 2, 384 of these visits were to babies under one year of age,
3,580 to children of from 1 to 5 years of age, and 495 were antenatal
visits to expectant mothers.
Free Food.
Free food, consisting mostly of dried milk or cod liver oil
and malt, was issued during the year to necessitous expectant and
nursing mothers attending the Centres at a cost of £226 8s. 5d.
Cow's milk was similarly issued at a cost of £226 7s 9d. Free
dinners were also supplied to necessitous mothers at the Feeding
Centre in White Hart Lane at a cost of £5 48. 6d.
Infant Life Protection.
The Health Visitors have continued to act as Infant Life
Protection Visitors during the year. The numbers of fostermothers
and foster-children on the register at the end of the year
were 15 and 17 respectively.
Day Nursery.
During the year plans were prepared by the Borough Surveyor
for a new Day Nursery and School Clinic, to be erected on a site
in White Hart Lane. These plans were approved by the Council
and are now awaiting approval by the Ministry of Health and
Board of Education. It is hoped that the new building will be
completed before the end of 1938.