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3. Health Visitors:-
Miss Smith resigned her appointment at the end of the year.
She had been with us three years, and was a most valuable worker,
whose help I am Very sorry to have lost.
The following particulars of the work done by the Health
Visitors are taken from Form M.C.W. 96 (Revised), which was Sent
to the Ministry of Health in advance of this report.
Number of visits paid during the year by the Health Visitors:-
(a) To children under one ,year of age:-
First visits 6l8
Total visits 1,504
(b) To children between the ages of one and five
years:-
Total visits 1,839
Infant Welfare Centres.- The following attendances were
recorded at the five Centres serving the Wanstead and Woodford
residents:-
(a) Children under one year of age 9,963
(b) Children between the ages of one and
five years 5,545
4. Child Life Protection.- The Health Visitors are appointed
Child Life Protection Visitors under Part VII of the Public Health
Act, 1936.
There were fourteen fostermothers and eighteen foster
children on the Register at the end of the year.
A total of three hundred and forty-one visits were paid
by the Visitors.
5. (a) Arrangements for Dental Cases.- Arrangements were made
with the local dentists in 1937 to undertake the dental treatment
of expectant and nursing mothers and children under school age.
Their charges are on an -agreed scale and the fees payable by the
patients are assessed according to their means, on a scale similar
to that of the Essex County Council.
During the year 1939, twenty-three mothers and eight
children were treated under this Scheme.
(b) Arrangements for Orthopaedic cases.- There is an
orthopaedic clinic at the Shrubberies, High Road, South Woodford,
directed conjointly by the British Red Cross Society and the
Essex County Council.
In suitable cases the Wanstead and Woodford Borough Council
have paid the fees for the admission of orthopaedic cases to
Brookfield Orthopaedic Hospital.
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