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Southall 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
Health Visiting.
The district is divided into five health visitors' areas, in which each
officer does all health visiting work, including infectious diseases, home-visiting,
and visiting schools in connection with infectious disease, but excluding child
life protection visiting which, as heretofore, is done by the senior health visitor,
who is also Child Protection Visitor.
The work done by the health visitors during the year is as shown
below:—
Table No. 12 Summary of Health Visiting Work for the year 1938 Visits to infants—
| First visits | 856 |
| Re-visits | 3,288 |
| Visits to children— | |
| First visits | 80 |
| Re-visits | 5,218 |
| Visits to expectant mothers | 726 |
| Visits for infectious disease | 1,333 |
| Visits to schools | 153* |
| Child Life Protection visits | 381 |
| Miscellaneous visits | 699 |
| Removals | 406 |
| No access | 1,317 |
| Total | 14,457 |
| * At these visits a total of 0,085 children were examined. | |
Child Life Protection.
The general arrangements as outlined in the report for 1934 remain
unaltered.
The Council has decided that the register of foster mothers and children
should be reviewed annually. This expedites the removal from the register of
foster mothers who do not wish to take in further foster children, and so keeps
the register in a live condition.
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