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Infant Clinic. From Merton and Morden.
Total number of attendances at the
infant clinic 671*
Total number of first attendances
under one year of age 45
Total number of children attending
during the year:—
Under one year 42
Over one year 3
Ante and Post Natal Clinic. Ante-Natal. Post-Natal.
Total number of attendances during
the year *1,622 *175
Total number of women who
attended during the year 135 80
* All districts.
Health Visiting. While T would once again emphasise the
dangers of placing absolute reliance on figures as an index
of accomplishment, the records for the year 1945 do nevertheless
show a very large increase in visits in all categories over
the previous year. The total visits made by the Health Visitors
were 9,688 last year, compared with 7,919 for the previous
year.
It is of interest that there were over 100 more visits to
expectant mothers, compared with the previous year. One of
the reasons for this increase is the large number of cases
making application to St. Helier County Hospital for admission
and who are referred to this department for a Health
Visitor's report on the home conditions to estimate the need
for hospitalisation. While this has entailed a considerable
amount of extra visiting for the staff, the opportunity presented
in this way for our Health Visitors to make additional
contacts with our expectant mothers was welcomed.
It will also be noted that there were 128 visits made to
foster children. As there were 9 foster children in the area
for whose supervision we are responsible this means that each
child was visited on an average 14 times during the year.
This brief resume of the domicilary work of the Health Visitors
for the first post-war year gives sufficient indication of the
response that these highly trained personnel will make to the
increased demands inevitably to be made on them in the future.
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