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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Health Visiting.
The district is divided into five health visitor's 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 one of the health visitors, who is also Child Protection Visitor.
See Appendix Table VIII for summary of visits during 1942. While the number
of visits wasted because of no access is considerable, it compares very favourably with other
districts. In some areas this figure is very much higher.
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.
See Appendix Table IX for statistics of this work.
Consultant Aid in Difficult Labour.
The arrangements outlined in the report for 1934 remain unaltered. During the
year the consultant was not called in. An economic circumstance scale is in force and
includes the payment of fees in these cases.
Institutional Provision for Unmarried Mothers, Illegitimate Infants and
Homeless Children in the District.
None.
Ultra-Violet Light Clinic.
This treatment clinic is held at the Manor House twice a week, from October until
May. The general types of patients recommended for treatment are children suffering from
malnutrition, general debility, chronic bronchitis, and rickets, and expectant mothers who
are not in a satisfactory condition. Cases of infantile eczema and other conditions are also
occasionally treated. The ultra-violet light has produced some very good results, and
there is constantly a considerable number on the waiting list for treatment.

Post-Natal and Birth Control Clinic.