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Home Visiting.
The number of visits paid by the health visitors during the year was 20,770.
Of these 1,240 were first visits, 3,802 were subsequent visits to infants of under
one year, and 10,220 visits to children between one year and five years of age. These
figures should be compared with 1,304, 2,975 and 8,838 for 1935. A summary of the
work done by the health visitors appears below. Further particulars will be found
in the detailed table on page 96.
Number of first visits to infants 1,240
Number of first visits to children one to five years 2,085
Number of revisits to infants 3,802
Number of revisits to children one to five years 8,135
Number of visits to still births 36
Number of visits to ophthalmia cases 10
Expectant mothers—first visits 842
Expectant mothers—revisits 1,116
Puerperal Fever—first visits and revisits 5
Puerperal Pyrexia—first visits and revisits 21
Number of futile visits 3,491
In addition to the above visits the health visitors interviewed mothers on 4,062
occasions.