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Children's Hospital, Balaam Street.
Abscess of toe 1 O.C.T 3
A.P.M 1 Otitis Media 1
Appendicitis 1 P.I.H 1
Congen. Disloc. of Hip 3 R.I.H 3
Convulsions 1 Rickets 2
C.T.E.V 3
C.T. V \ Spastic Paraplegia 4
D.I. H 1 Spinal Caries 1
Dorsal Caries 1 Syndactylism X
Fractured Skull 1 T.C.V 1
T.B. Hip 1
Genu Varum 2 Talipes 1
Hernia 1 Under Observation 1
McEwan's 1 Vomiting 1
Convalescent Homes.
Twenty-five children under five years of age were sent to
Convalescent Homes at the expense of the Council through
the Invalid Children's Aid Association and Invalid and Crippled
Children's Society. These children are all examined by
the Assistant Medical Officer for Maternity and Child Welfare,
who gives a certificate which states the length of convalescent
treatment necessary. Much consequent ill-health
would be avoided if more stress were laid on a seaside or
country " holiday " as the final treatment to pneumonia, the
infectious fevers and various other complaints.
Home Helps.
" Home Helps " is the name given to women who are
employed by the Council to assist in the homes during the
lying-in period of certain necessitous women. These " helps "
are specially selected and approved by the Health Visitors
as being suitable for the work. A list of such available
women is kept at the Town Hall, any person concerned being
entitled to see this list as an aid to the selection of a suitable
Home Help. The work of these women is closely supervised
by the Health Visitor, and only tfyose people from homes
clean and free from infectious disease are allowed to come
to the lying-in patient. The Health Visitor also visits the
house several times during the stay of the Home Help in the
house, in order to see that she performs her duties, and also
to_ give any advice needed. The duties of these women are
briefly set out in the following form, a copy of which is handed
to each one on her accepting duty. The object of the quick