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45.
Besides the visits to which reference has been made
already, the Health Visitors visit the homes of children
for whom application has been made to enter the Day
Nursery. Their reports on the home circumstances are
of great value to the Matron of the Nursery in dealing
with the Nursery children.
Further, they visit all cases of notified Measles, at
all ages, in their own districts,—except when the disease
is epidemic and it is found necessary to appoint a special
nurse for Measles duty. Measles has in recent years
become more serious than it used to be, both in its
immediate risks and in its sequelae, and the work of
the Health Visitors in this connection is of great
importance.
Another important part of the work of the Health
Visitors may be referred to. Under the Regulations of
the Ministry of Health, 1926, Ophthalmia Neonatorum
(inflammation of the eyes of the newborn) is a notifiable
disease. It is a disease that in the past has been very
destructive to the sight of babies who contract it, and
earnest efforts are now being made to stamp it out of
existence. All cases of Fulham patients notified are
visited by the Health Visitors to secure that treatment
prescribed is properly carried out.
Other special visits are made in many circumstances
which cannot be tabulated; but the following table gives
some idea of the very wide scone of the work thev do.