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Health Visitors:-
Five Nurses and one temporary are on the staff for this and the
School Medical Service.
The following table sets out a brief summary of the work of
the Health Visitors during the years:-
(a) To expectant mothers:
First visits 289
Total visits 511
(b)To. children under 1 year of, age:
First visits 881
Total visits 2092
(c) To children between the ages of one
and five years:
Total visits 2405
(d) Ophthalmic .visits (including "sticky eye" cases) 35
(e) Other, visits:
Measles and German Measles 30
whooping Cough 17
Infant Life Protection visits 89
Post-Natal -
Infant Mortality -
TOTAL 5179
Child Life Protection (under the Public Health Act, 1936).
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 22
(b) At the end of the year 19
(2) Number of children on the Registers:-
(a) At the beginning of the year 31
(b) At the end of the year 25
(c) Who died during the year Nil
(d) On whom inquests were held during the year Nil
Bennett Street Day Nursery:-
Record of attendances during the year 1944:
Whole days 8653 Half-days 642
War-time Day Nurseries:
* Clifden Road equipped for 60 children
War-time Day Nursery Schools:
* Beverley Road equipped for 25 children
Strand-on-the-Green equipped for 50 children 5797
Lionel Road equipped for 50 children 8330
* Records of attendances at these Nurseries were kept at the Nursery
and were destroyed by enemy action. Throughout the year bookings
were always to full capacity, with a moderate waiting list.