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longer that the "Following up" visits, which a nurse arranges
according to their proximity.
Sometimes the cases prove to he not infectious, and often on
visiting no one is found at home, so that the number of actual
cases does not represent all the visits paid.
In some districts Attendance Officers do this work, but it
must be considered more satisfactory to send a nurse who can give
the mothers advice as to the management of the illness. Also in
cases where no doctor certifies, and these r.ases are vastly in the
majority, it does not seem fitting that it should be left to an Attendance
Officer to decide as to the nature of the illness.
But this visiting does cut right across the orderly planning of
the nurse's visiting, and as it takes precedence, other visiting
suffers accordingly. This is particularly so during epidemics, when
practically all other visits have to be sacrificed to meet the
emergency.