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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Heath Visiting.
Up to September, 15)34, two of the Health Visitors had been employed
purely for Maternity and Child Welfare Work, and the third Health Visitor
purely for Infectious Disease visiting. This led to much overlapping of the
district involved and a consequent waste of time in travelling and in other
ways. The Council in September gave their approval in principle to an
additional Health Visitor being appointed in the coming financial year because
of the general expansion of the work, and meanwhile a re-arrangement
was made of the Health Visitors' duties and their districts in order that their
work might be more easily and more efficiently performed. As a result,
each of the three Health Visitors now has a district of her own in which
she does all health visiting work including infectious diseases home-visiting
and visiting schools in connection with infectious disease, but excluding
Infant Life Protection visiting which, as heretofore, is still done by the
senior Health Visitor who has been appointed Infant Life Protection Officer.
The work done by the Health Visitors during the year is as shown in
Table No. 10.
Table No. 10.
Summary of Health Visiting Work for the Year 1934.
No. of livebirths notified 667
No. of non-notified births 74
No. of stillbirths notified 18
No. of illegitimate births notified (included in first figure) 9
Visits to Infants :
1st. visits 687
Re-visits 671
Visits to Children :
1st. visits 226
Re-visits 1706
Visits to Expectant Mothers 277
Visits for infectious disease 2129
\ isits to Schools *64
Infant Life Protection Visits 177
Miscellaneous visits 189
Removals 369
No access 476
Total 6971
* At these visits a total of 4,749 children were examined.
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