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Home Visiting.
During the year the Health Visitors made a total of 6,052
visits. 2,340 of these visits were to babies under one year of age,
3,250 to children of from 1 to 5 years of age, and 462 were antenatal
visits to expectant mothers.
Free Food.
Free food, consisting of cows' milk, dried milks and cod liver
oil and malt, was issued during the year to necessitous expectant
and nursing mothers attending the Centres at a cost of
£552 14s. 6d.
Free dinners were also supplied to necessitous mothers at the
Feeding Centre in White Hart Lane at a cost of £2 17s. 6d.
Infant Life Protection.
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 were 19
and 19 respectively.
Day Nursery.
In January, 1938, plans prepared by the Borough Surveyor
for a new Day Nursery and School Clinic to be erected on a site
in White Hart Lane were approved by the Council and sent to the
Ministry of Health and Board of Education for approval. It was
hoped that the new premises would be ready for occupation by
the end of 1938, but unfortunately, for one reason or another, no
progress has been made and the work has not even yet been put
out for tender. I am assured by the Borough Surveyor that this
will be done in the very near future, so that there is a possibility
of work on this very much required building being commenced
before the end of 1939. It is very much to be regretted that there