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Two cases of Puerperal Fever and nine cases of
Puerperal Pyrexia were notified under the Regulations;
four were removed to the Queen Charlotte Maternity
Hospital for treatment under the Corporation's scheme;
three received treatment in other hospital institutions
or nursing homes, and four were nursed at home.
Post-Natal.
Home Visiting.
The Corporation employs five health visitors, who
. devote half their time to the School Medical Service.
One Health Visitor attends the Tuberculosis Dispensary
on each Wednesday afternoon session, and carries out
home visitation of tubercular patients.
Table XII. in the Appendix gives details of the
work of home visiting during 1932. It is satisfactory
to note that there has not been a further falling off in
the total number of recorded visits for 1932, but actually
an increase of 334 over the total for 1931. The appointment
of a Dental Assistant Nurse has enabled a Health
Visitor, who had been engaged in Dental Clinic duties,
to be employed in her proper sphere of duties, viz.,
maternity and child welfare and school medical services.
It was not anticipated that any material improvement in
the number of visits would result from this change,
because the resignation of a Health Visitor and the illness
of another during 1932, naturally disturbed staff
activities. Even with the full complement of five Health
Visitors engaged in their rightful sphere of action, it is
not to be expected that the current year will produce
proportionate increase in visiting records, because growing
population, an additional welfare session, and the
constant housing developments creating additional areas
to be traversed, will all exert a retarding influence on
statistics of home visitation.
The total number of visits by the health visitors
during 1932 amounted to 6,118. Not included in this
number are 1,015 visits designated as "ineffectual"
which are made up of visits where no answer is received,
the family is discovered to have moved, or visits are
resented. It will be appreciated that time and energy is