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ever been recorded in the Borough, must be attributed in
great part to the spread of education in child nurture which
has been disseminated in every home in the Borough where
such information is needed.
In 1923, the Council, with the approval of the Ministry
of Health, paid the class fees of two Health Visitors attending
a refresher course for Health Visitors.
Other Work. In addition to birth visits, they have made
investigations into the cause of infant deaths and still-births
and have visited notified cases of ophthalmia neonatorum,
puerperal fever, and pneumonia in children under five years.
Very little of their time indeed has been taken up with the
distribution of free milk under the Council's assisted milk
scheme, other arrangements having been made for the verification
of income of applicants for assisted milk. This work,
which, in the first instance, was placed on Health Visitors,
is not essentially Health Visitors' work and it was found
that it interfered with their normal work. The increase of,
approximately, 3,000 visits this year is due in the main to
this arrangement.
The following Table No. 56 shews the classification of
visits paid by the Health Visitors in 1922 and 1923 :—