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high standard of efficiency is to be maintained. As will be
seen from the subjoined list the work undertaken by the
Health Visitor in 1925 was already more than could well
be managed by one person:-
Visits to new cases after notification of birth 321
Visits to children under 12 months 1647
Ante-Natal visits 173, of these 59 were first visits. Miss
Clarke also runs a Provident Fund, into which mothers pay
small weekly contributions towards their treatment
expenses. The money is withdrawn as required.
I would like to express my grateful acknowledgment
of the invaluable help given by our kind voluntary helpers
who, week after week, attend regularly, often we can well
believe at great personal inconvenience. It is very largely
due to their help and interest that we are able to manage
the large number of children attending, thereby ensuring
the smooth working of the Clinic.
Milk is given to necessitous cases.
The School Clinic for the district is held at the Council
School, Stanley Road, Teddington, and is staffed by the
County Authorities.
DAIRIES, COWSHEDS AND MILKSHOPS.
The Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order, 1885,
requires this Council to keep a register of persons from time
to time carrying on the trade of dairymen or purveyors of
milk and provides that a person may not carry on the trade
unless he is registered.
Section 2 of the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act,
1922, empowers the Council to refuse to enter any person's
name on the register, or to remove his name from that
register if they are satisfied that the public health is, or is
likely to be, endangered by any act or default of his in
relation to the quality, storage or distribution of milk.
There are 24 purveyors of milk on the register and of
these two are cowkeepers. All the premises are inspected
frequently.
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