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Home Visiting.
The number of visits paid by the Health Visitors during the year was 19,765.
Of these 1,415 were first visits, 3,219 were subsequent visits to infants of under
one year, and 10,294 visits to children between one year and five years of age. These
figures should be compared with 1,443, 3,089 and 8,748 for 1933. A summary of the
work done by the Health Visitors appears below. Further particulars will be found
in the detailed table on page 73.
Number of first visits to infants 1,415
Number of first visits to children one to five years 4,198
Number of revisits to infants 3,219
Number of revisits to children one to five years 6,096
Number of visits still-births and deaths, including revisits 34
Number of visits deaths of children from one month to five years 158
Number of visits to Ophthalmia cases 49
Expectant mothers—first visits 805
Expectant mothers—revisits 768
Puerperal Fever—first visits and revisits 16
Puerperal Pyrexia—first visits and revisits 20
Number of futile visits 3,179
In addition to the above visits the Health Visitors interviewed mothers on 3,813
occasions.