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When the mether and infant are kept at home,
clese supervisien "by the Health Visiters is carried eut
and all practical assistance possible is rendered.
A separate bedreem for mether and infant is
advecated; instructiens en imprevisatien and detailed
advice en the care ef the infant are given. The
services ef a paediatrician can be called upen if
necessary and a home help provided where necessary.
(c1) CARE eF ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.
The previsiens of Ministry ef Health Circular
2866 are fellewed and mest ef the suggestiens eutlined
in the Circular are covered with the exceptien that a
separate welfare werker has net been appeinted. Clese
ce-eperatien, hewever, exists between the efficers ef the
Welfare Autherity and Welfare Werkers at the Kingsten
Deanery Heme and generally. Financial contributien ef
50%, the Surrey County Ceuncil paying the ether 50%
tewards the salary ef a full-time Welfare Werker at the
Deanery Heme was decided upen at the end ef the year,
appreximately 50% ef the time ef the werker te be spent en
Kingsten caces. -
During tfcie pre-natal stages, Health Visiters are
in teuch with expectant methers and, where necessary, centact
the grand-parents, welfare werkers in facteries,
hespitals, almeners, meral welfare werkers and ethers.
Similar centacts are made during the pest-natal stages and,
in additien, admissiens te Day Nurseries are arranged,
fester-methers are visited and attendance at the Maternity
and Child Welfare Clinics is enceuraged.
Assistance is given alse by hespital almeners
and asseciated werkers whe help the methers te find werk
and ledgings.
(iv) HEALTH VISITeRS.
The changcs in the persennel ef the Health
Visiters are indicated at the beginning ef"this Repert.
The Health Visiters are alse Scheel Nutses and
Child Life Pretectien Visiters.
Frem 1st April, 19^5, the Health Visiters acting
as Scheel Nurses have ceme under the administratien ef the
Surrey Ceunty Ceuncil which is the Educatien Autherity fer
the Area. The same nurses deal with the Kingsten scheels
under the Nerth Central Divisienal Executive Cemmittee which
cevers Kingsten, Maiden, Esher and Surbiten, and fer which
Cemmittee yeur Medical efficer ef Health is alse Divisienal
Scheel Medical efficer.
There has been censiderable expansien ef the werk
in Maternity and Child Welfare.
There has alse been an additien te the werk ef
the Health Visiters in regular visits ef inspeetien te the
War-Time Nurseries recently established.
All this werk ef Maternal and Infant Welfare puts
a very heavy strain en the existing health visiting staff.
The number ef clinics held and the premises used are
inadequate fer the velume and nature ef the werk being done.