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HEALTH VISITING
(a) Sessions Worked
Number of sessions (half days) devoted to:
(i) Health visiting
6,290
(ii) Child welfare centres
2,874
(iii) Ante-natal, post-natal, relaxation etc. clinics
472
(iv) School clinics
1,062
(v) Other school nursing
1,662
(vi) Health education (including mothercraft)
567
(vii) Other work (including clerical)
3,996
Total sessions
16,923
(b) Cases visited for the first time in the year
(i) children born in 1960
1,074
" " " 1961
1,511
" " " 1962
1,536
" " " 1963
2,378
" " " 1964
2,658
" " " 1965
3,735
(ii) persons aged 65 or over
2.629
(iii) others (excluding school nursing cases)
2,298
(c) Number included in item (b)
(i) mentally disordered persons
206
(ii) persons discharged from hospital (other than mental
hospitals)
306
(iii) tuberculous households
7
(iv) households visited on account of other infectious
diseases
10
(d) Number included in item (b) and where appropriate item (c) who
were visited at the special request of a G.P. or hospital:
(i) persons aged 65 or over
452
(ii) mentally disordered persons
74
(iii) persons discharged from hospital (other than mental
hospitals)
165
EFFECTIVE
INEFFECTIVE
(e) Total number of visits to:
(i) children under 5 years of age
25,730
4,444
(ii) persons aged 65 or over
5,121
1,070
(iii) others (excluding school nursing cases)
6,377
637
Total effective visits
37,228
6,151
(f) Sessions attended at G.P's surgeries (included above)
387
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