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Number of visits paid during the year by all Health Visitors:—
(a) To expectant mothers:
First visits 298
Total visits 543
(b) To children under one year of age :
First visits 649
Total visits 2138
(c) To children between the ages of 1 and 5 years:
Total visits 3273
(d) Ophthalmic visits 12
(e) Other visits :
Measles 6
Whooping Cough -
Epidemic Diarrhoea -
Infant Life Protection visits 253
Total visits 6225
(iv) Infant Life Protection (under Part I of the Children Act,
1908, as amended by the Children and Young Persons
Act, 1932).
The six Health Visitors and School Nurses employed by
the Council are appointed Infant Life Protection Visitors under
the above-mentioned Act, and, as will be seen from the summary
of visits made as shown above, combine the work with that of
Health Visiting.
In addition to the visits from the Health Visitors, 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
(b) At the end of the year 29
(2) Number of children on the Register :
(a) At the beginning of the year 38
(b) At the end of the year 36
(c) Who died during the year
(d) On whom inquests were held during the year