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At the end of the year there were 18 full-time and 3
part-time qualified Health Visitors and School Nurses in
addition to the Superintendent Health Visitor, and 5 Clinic
Nurses.
The following is a summary of the home visits made
by the Health Visitors and Clinic Nurses during 1959 as far
as Part III Services are concerned:-
First visits to newly-born infants 2,309
Subsequent visits to children under
1 year of age 6, 106
Subsequent visits to children over
1 year of age and under 5 15, 521
Visits to expectant mothers 1, 131
Home visits for other reasons
(inc. 699 visits to old folk) 3,613
Total visits paid 28,680
In addition there were 6,581 visits paid where no
reply was received.
The arrangements made in 1957 for the Health Visitor
serving in the area in which his practice is situated to assist
at the baby clinic held by one of the general practitioners
once a month, have continued and have proved most satisfactory.
As was reported last year, with a view to increasing
the degree of co-operation between the Department, Hospitals
and the Doctors, a meeting at which medical and nursing
staff from the Hospitals and the Health Areas and also
general practitioners from both Ilford and Barking attended
was held at the Chadwell Heath Hospital on the 27th January,
1959.
To continue our policy of decentralising the health
visitors so far as is practicable, a room on the first floor
at Newbury Hall has been rented from the Borough Council
from the 1st April, 1959 as an office for the two health
visitors working in that area.