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(c) INFANT WELFARE SERVICES.
(i) Domiciliary Visits.
The initial visit by a Health Visiter is paid to all
infants 12 - 14 days after confinement where a midwife has
been in attendance, or where the confinement took place
in the Kingston County Hospital, and 28 days after the
birth where a General Practitioner was in attendance.
Advice is given by the Health Visitor on infant
feeding hygiene, and general management of mother and
infant.
Further visits are paid according to the domestic
circumstances. Where a family doctor is in attendance,
no further visits are made unless by request of the mother.
In a majority of cases, visits are made every month, or more
often if necessary, during the first six months, and every
two months at one year, and every three months between one
and five years. lore frequent visits are made where there
are difficulties with infant feeding or illness.
Regular visits at intervals of one to three months,
according to circumstances, are made between the ages of
one to five years.
Every effort is made to find children who have entered
the Borough since their birth and regular visits are also
made to those cases.

(ii) Infant Welfare Clinics.
)
Two Clinics were held weekly at both the Health Centre
and Latchmere School. The Medical Officer of Health or his
Assistant attend all these Clinics, examine the children
regularly and advise regarding infant feeding, etc.
The following table shows the number of sessions held,
the number of new cases seen, subsequent visits made, and
the numbers seen by the Medical Officer:-