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TABLE No. 6.
Births—First visits 2,218
„ Revisits 18,025
Infant deaths investigated 30
Still-births investigated
Expectant mothers—home visits 1,038
Infectious diseases:—
Ophthalmia Neonatorum—First visits 33
„ „ Revisits 11
Measles—First visits 40
,, Revisits 25
Puerperal Fever—First visits 9
„ „ Revisits 4
Puerperal Pyrexia—First visits 14
,, „ Revisits 7
Zymotic Enteritis —First visits 35
„ „ Revisits 23
Pneumonia 56
Infant Life Protection 690
Visits unclassified 495
Visits unsuccessful 4,051
26,815
Following their usual practice the Council gave the necessary facilities to two
health visitors to attend refresher courses and paid their expenses.
Infant Life Protection.—The Council are responsible for Infant Life Protection
work and all the Health Visitors have been appointed Infant Life Protection
Visitors for their particular districts. When evasion of the law is suspected any
necessary investigations are made by one of the male sanitary inspectors. The
homes of all new foster mothers are inspected by the district sanitary inspectors,
who furnish in each case a sanitary report.
At the end of 1936 there were 75 nurse children and 59 foster mothers on the
Council's register, and a year later the numbers were 70 and 54. It is the custom
to report on all homes where women indicate their desire to become foster mothers
and, in addition to the number of foster mothers shown above, another 14 were
either temporarily without nurse children or had been noted as suitable persons.