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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
Continued progress has been maintained in the work of
this section of the Public Health Department.
The further development of the Maternity and Child
Welfare Services has made necessary an increase of staff
and an additional Health Visitor will be appointed to take up
duty early in 1938.
The total number of visits paid by the Health Visitors
during 1937 amounted to 5,901, the figure for the previous
year being 6,387.
Details of the home visits carried out are given below:—
Number of Infants visited—First visits 564
Number of Infants visited—Re-visits 1,172
Number of Toddlers visited 1,796
Ante-natal—First visits 174
Ante-natal—Re-visits 58
Visits re Infant Deaths 8
„ „ Stillbirths 15
„ „ Ophthalmia Neonatorum 37
„ „ Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia 6
„ „ Non-notifiable Infectious
Diseases 3
„ „ Milk Applications '29
„ „ Foster Children 368
„ „ Midwives 11
Miscellaneous 66
Total welfare visits 4,307
Visits—School Medical Service 534
Tuberculosis—Home visits 80
Visits to Nursing Homes 31
Other visits 1
Ineffectual visits 948
1,594
Total visits 5,901
Half-days at Schools 247
Half-days at Welfare Centres 477
Half-days at Clinics 640
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