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Health Visitors,
Six Nurses as reported last year are on the staff for this
work and the School Medical Service.
The following table sets out a bried summary of the work of this
Health'Visitors during the year:
(4i) To expectant mothers:
First visits
Total visits 693
(b) To children under one year of age:
First visits 699
Total visits 2805
(c)To children between the ages of 1
and 5 years
Total visits 4779
(d) Ophthalmic visits 3
(e) Other visits:
Measles 7
Whooping Cough 1
Epidemic Diarrhoea 1
Infant Life Protection Visits 182 .
Total 8471
Child Life Protection-(under the Public Health Act, 1936).
The following table sets out particulars of registration during
the year :
(1) Uumber of foster-parents on the Register:
(a> At'the beginning of the year 26
(b) At.-the end .pf the year 16
(2) Number of children oh the Register:
(a) At the begixiair of 'the year 31
(b) At the end. qf .the year 18
(c) Who died durlft the year
(d) On whom inquests .were held during the year
Dav Nursery.
Record of attendances during the year 1940.
Whole-days 9072
Half-days 9,18
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