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Health Visiting.
Seven Health Visitors are engaged on this work in the
Borough.
In addition to their duties in connection with the School
Health Service, they attend all Maternity and Child Welfare
Centres, Clinics in connection with Immunisation, Vaccination,
etc., and carry out home visiting in respect of Child Life Protection,
After Care, etc.
Full details of all Welfares, Clinics, etc., are given in the
tables appearing later in this report. The estimated gross annual
cost per Health Visitor is £523.
Midwifery (Domiciliary).
Four midwives are engaged in domiciliary midwifery in the
area. The services of the midwives are engaged direct by the
patient, or through the patient's private doctor, and the midwives
act either as midwives or maternity nurses.
Ante-natal clinics are held on Monday and Thursday afternoon
at the North Clinic, Station Road.
The County Council is the supervising Authority under the
National Health Service Act, 1946.
The estimated gross annual cost per midwife is £634.
Womens' Welfare Clinic.
This clinic is held on the second and fourth Tuesday afternoon
of each month, at North Clinic, Station Road, and is for
cases referred on medical grounds.
Day Nurseries.
Two Day Nurseries are provided by the County Council.
Elmfield Nursery provides for forty children, and " Draycott "
now has thirty places which is a reduction of thirty on the
number previously provided.
Admission to Day Nurseries is now restricted to the children
of women who are unmarried, widowed, separated, having to
work because of a dependent husband or who are, by reason of
illness or confinement, unable to look after their families, and
children from families who are living in conditions inimical to
the proper care of young children and. exceptionally, children
from a family where the father himself is endeavouring to bring
up a family but is unable to obtain any suitable person to look
after a child under five years of age during his normal working
hours.
The estimated gross cost per year, per place, is £141.