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It is interesting to note that we have exceptionally
highly trained and experienced women on our Health
Visiting staff. All the Health Visitors are fully trained
nurses and all have the certificate of the Central
Midwives' Board in addition to possessing either the
Health Visitors' or Sanitary Inspectors' Certificate.
Added to these three essential qualifications, several
Health Visitors hold qualifications in special branches
of nursing, as follows:—One has had a complete
Fever training, with special experience in Tuberculosis
; one is a Queen's Nurse ; a third has had
special training in Venereal Disease and in Tropical
Diseases; six have had a wide experience in practical
midwifery; one has specialised knowledge of Massage
and Actino-Therapy; and another was for several
years a District Nurse for general and Tuberculosis
work.
With all these highly specialised trainings at their
disposal, the mothers of Fulham have a great storehouse
of knowledge from which to draw for help and
guidance.
Home Visits.
There are seven Health Visitors working in the
Department and the scope of their work is indicated
by the figures which follow
First visits to infants
2,826
Re-visits to infants
11,440
Re-visits to children aged 1 to 5 years
12,855
Visits to cases of ophthalmia neonatorum
15
„ measles
82
„ diarrhoea
29
„ pneumonia
28
„ puerperal fever
12
„ puerperal pyrexia
44
Ante-natal Visits
772
Other visits
155
I would direct attention to a great increase in these
figures during 1931. This is explained partly by what
I have said about the re-arrangement during holiday
periods and partly by the fact that we have now seven
Health Visitors on the permanent staff.