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POST-NATAL SERVICES.
Health Visitors: Home Visiting.
6,316 visits were made during 1944, a decrease of 1,200 compared
with the previous year, due to vacancies on the health
visiting staff, and evacuation of children during the fly bomb
attacks. 73 per cent, of births received a primary visit within
three weeks of birth, and an average of three visits to infants
under one year of age was accomplished during 1944.
All visits in 1944 are tabulated as follows
Primary visits under one year of age 606
Revisits under one year 1,251
Revisits one to five years 2,613
Expectant mothers (special)
School children 300
Infant deaths (special enquiries) 2
Immunisation 221
Miscellaneous 240
5,257
" Ineffectual" visits 1,059
6,316
Visits to Boarded-out children (included above 38
Special visits to children for adoption (included
above) 36
16.3 per cent. of visits were classified as "ineffectual," which
is precisely the same figure as recorded for 1943.
It is now opportune to place on record an appreciation of
the unremitting devotion to duty displayed by the health
visitors during the many dangers of the past six years. Their
normal duties were carried out regardless of danger, and in
addition their skilled work for casualties at the first aid posts
was of inestimable value.