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In addition to closely co-operating with our own Day
Nurseries, the Health Visitors have attended at the routine
medical inspections of nursery children in the schools, to afford
assistance to the School Medical Officer and Head Mistresses of
the schools with their more intimate knowledge of these
children.
Convalescent Home Treatment. Children requiring treatment
are sent to Convalescent Homes through the agency of
the Invalid Children's Aid Association, to whom the council
makes a contribution towards the cost of the treatment.
Orthopaedic Treatment. Children suffering from orthopaedic
defects are referred to the Nelson Hospital under the
general arrangement with that Hospital for the treatment of
children attending the Welfare centres.
Maternity Hospital Treatment. The arrangements with
Queen Charlotte's Hospital, whereby complicated cases were
admitted there, has fallen into disuse through the war and
because facilities are now available for dealing with these
locally. It will be seen in the section dealing with Hospitals
that there are 21 beds in the Nelson Hospital and 67 beds in
the St. Helier County Hospital. Since Chemotherapy has to a
large extent supplanted surgery in the treatment of Puerperal
Pyrexia, cases complicated by pyrexia are now provided for
in the Wandle Valley Isolation Hospital.
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