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Health Visitors.
Seven Nurses were on the staff for this and the School Medical
Service.
The following is a summary of the work of the Health Visitors
during the year:-
(a) To expectant mothers:-
First visits 504
Total visits 642
(b) To children under 1 year of age:
First visits 1071
Total visits 1998
(c) To children between the ages of 1 and 5 years:
Total visits 2282
(d) Ophthalmic visits 19
(e) Other Visits:
Pemphigus Neonatorum 1
Child Life Protection 94
Post-Natal 131
Infantile Mortality 2
Epidemic Diarrhoea 3
Premature Birth 2
Miscellaneous (Special Visits, etc.) 166
TOTAL 5340
Child Life Protection (under Sections 206-220 of the Public
Health Act, 1936).
The following table gives particulars of registration during
the year
(1) Number of foster-parents on the Register:-
(a) at the beginning of the year 14
(b) at the end of the year 13
(2) Number of children on the Register:-
(a) at the beginning of the year 20
(b) at the end of the year 19
(c) who died during the year -
(d) on whom inquests were held during the year
Bennett Street Day Nursery (equipped for 45 children)
Total attendances during the year 1946 10073
14