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between this Department and out-side Authorities and
Institutions lias involved a corresponding growth in the
clerical work and much of the success of new arrangements
is dependent upon the loyal co-operation of the
Clerks. I think it right to place on record my appreciation
of this. The services of both the Health Visiting
and Clerical staff's are frequently given during unofficial
hours most cordially and voluntarily.
In addition to their ordinary work, the Health
Visitors visited (543 cases of Measles, and as a report of
those visits has to be entered on two sets of cards, such
visits together with the clerical work attached to them,
take up a great deal of time.
No locum tenens for Health Visitors was provided
during the holiday period of 1932, so that approximately
the services of one Health Visitor were lost to the
Department for six months of the year
I am glad to say that we have a very dependable stall
of voluntary workers, viz :—Miss Christian Wickham,
Mrs. Hell, Mrs. Tait, Mrs. Falcon, Miss Keenlysidc,
Miss Sliorto, Miss Dolman and members of the Fulliam
Free Church Women's Guild. We are grateful for their
devoted services.
Health Visitors.
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