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Health Visitors.
The personnel of the Health Visiting Staff is the same as for
the previous year. The following table gives a very brief
summary of the work performed.
Number of Visits paid during the Year by all Health
Visitors.
(a) To expectant mothers :
First Visits 265
Total Visits 451
(b) To children under 1 year of age :
First Visits 773
Total Visits 3020
(c) To children between the ages of
1 and 5 years :
Total Visits 4117
(d) Ophthalmic Visits 17
(e) Other Visits :
Measles 2
Whooping Cough 37
Epidemic Diarrhoea 3
Infant Life Protection Visits 270
Total of all Visits 8965
Infant Life Protection (under Part I of the Children Act, 1908,
as amended by the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932).
The whole of the six Health Visitors and School Nurses
employed by the Borough are appointed Infant Life Protection
Visitors under the above-mentioned Act, and, as will be seen
from the summary of visits made as shewn above, combine the
work with that of Health Visiting.
In addition, the majority of foster mothers are required to
bring foster-children to the Child Welfare Clinics for periodical
medical examination.
The following table sets out particulars of registration
during the year:—
(1) Number of foster-parents on the Register:
(a) At the beginning of the year 49
(b At the end of the year 49