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Close liason is maintained with the Kingston
Deanery Home for Friendless Girls as described in
the previous page. The Health Visitors are in
touch as early as possible with the expectant mother
and make the necessary contacts with grand parents,
welfare workers, hospital almoners, moral welfare
workers, and others.
Full care and supervision during all stages
is provided and later admissions to Day Nurseries,
or arrangements for Foster Mothers are made.
The moral welfare worker at the Deanery Home
advises on legal proceedings and adoption and, where
necessary, help is given to the mothers to find work
and lodgings.
(iv) HEALTH VISITORS.
The changes in the personnel of the Health
Visitors are indicated at the beginning of this
Report.
The Health Visitors are also School Nurses
and Child Life Protection Visitors.
There has been considerable expansion of the
work in Maternity and Child Welfare as evidenced by
the figures showing the number of Domiciliary Visits
and Clinics attendances as compared with pre-war
figures.
There has also been an addition to the work
of the Health Visitors in regular visits of inspection
to the War-time Nurseries recently established.
All the Health Visitors have contributed much
to Civil Defence by acting as Trained Nurses for the
First Aid Posts and Mobile Units and by undertaking
the Nursing supervision of shelters and a Shelter
Aid Post when required.
Miss Hookway, Senior Health Visitor, has
rendered outstanding service by dealing successfully
with all the additional calls due to War Organisation
and the increase of Routine Work with the same number
of colleagues, three as before the war.