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Sessions attended by Health Visitors.
At Local Authority Ante-Natal Clinics 18
At G.P. Ante-Natal Clinics 97
At Cytology Clinics 17
At Developmental Clinics 25
Local Authority Child Health Centres 1,804
G.P. Child Health Sessions 329
At Toddlers' Clinics 255
At G.P. Toddlers' Sessions 17
At Parentcraft Sessions (by day) 100
At Parentcraft Sessions (Evening) 55
At Fathercraft Sessions 40
At Geriatric Clinics 107
At Vaccination and Immunisation
Sessions 24
At Co-ordination Meetings 2
At Case Conferences 28
Screening Tests of Hearing of Young
Children 218
At Meetings 501
Sessions with Students 371
At Mothercraft Sessions 332
Sessions attended by State Registered Nurses.
At Ante-Natal and Cytology Clinics 263
At Cytology Clinics 45
At Vaccination & Immunisation Clinics 124
At Developmental Clinics 23
At Child Health Sessions 380
MIDWIFERY
Staff
As at 31st December, 1970, the staff consisted of: —
1 Non Medical Supervisor of Midwives (also acts as Superintendent
of the Home Nursing Service).
1 Deputy Non-Medical Supervisor of Midwives (also acts as
Deputy Superintendent of the Home Nursing Service).
7 Whole-time district midwives.
2 district nurse/midwives.
Introductory
The number of home confinements has continued its downward
trend (169 compared with 217 for 1969) but with an increase of 95
planned and unplanned 48-hour discharges from hospital, work has
not decreased. Fifty of these early discharges were accepted at short
notice in July and August, 1970, when an outbreak of infection in the
Maternity Unit at St. Helier Hospital caused the temporary closure
of a number of wards. These patients and their babies were nursed
by those district nurses who are also qualified midwives.
Midwives have continued to obtain blood samples for the testing
of phenylketonuria by the Guthrie method for babies delivered at
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