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(ii) Institutional Provision for Mothers or Children.
By arrangements with the Surrey County Council unmarried
mothers and their children can be sent to a Home at Epsom if beds
are available.
(iii) Health Visitors.
There are three Health Visitors employed as such half-time.
The rest of their work is as School Nurses
With the enlargement of the Borough some re-arrangement
of districts was required, and the Health Visitor who takes the
southern portion of the Borough (including Ham and Petersham)
attends the Welfare Centre at Petersham twice monthly.
(iv) Infant Life Protection (under part 1 of the Children Act,
1908, as amended by the Children and Young Persons
Act, 1932).
The Maternity and Child Welfare Work also includes the
supervision of Foster Children, a work formerly in the hands of the
Guardians. All persons taking children for gain require to be
registered and their homes are visited by the Health Visitors.
The children come under this Act until they are nine years of age,
and of course, the Nurses pay more frequent visits when the
children are below school age. 192 visits were paid to Foster
Children by the Nurses in 1935.