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PUERPERAL INFECTION.
18 notifications of puerperal pyrexia were received, two relating to
women who had been confined in London hospitals. 10 of the others
related to women who were confined in local nursing homes. Of these,
11 were removed to hospital of which two were general hospitals and the
remainder isolation hospitals. One of the cases was a fulminating
hsemolytic streptococcal infection which proved fatal after laparotomy
for peritonitis.
Two of the 7 patients in whom puerperal pyrexia followed on
confinement of patients in their own homes were removed to isolation
hospitals for treatment.
Four of the notified cases were passed to the District Nursing
Association for treatment.
INFANT WELFARE SERVICES.
HOME VISITING BY THE HEALTH VISITORS.
The following table shows the number of visits paid by the health
visitors during the year:
(a) To expectant mothers First visits 836
Total visits 1,099
(b) To children under one year of age First visits 3,174
Total visits 7,353
(c) To children between the ages of one and
five years Total visits 13,865
In addition visits were paid to 214 cases of measles and 98 cases
of whooping cough in children under 5 years of age.
INFANT WELFARE CENTRES.
The following table shows the work done at the Infant Welfare
Centres during the year:
Total attendances at all Centres :
(1) By children under one year of age 47,164
(2) By children between the ages of one and five years 19,056
Total number of children who first attended at the Centres during
the year and who on the date of their first attendance were :
(1) Under one year of age 2,858
(2) Between the ages of one and five years 293
Total number of children under five years of age who attended at
the Centres during the year and who at the end of the year were:
(1) Under one year of age 2,450
(2) Over one year of age 5,567
Attendances: The average weekly attendances at the infant welfare
centres for 1943 was 1,250, a figure slightly less than that of 1,296 in the
previous year. This was the average of a range from the figure of 1,150
in December to one of 1,425 in September.
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