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The Health Visitor paid the following visits during the year:—
First visits to Infants 242
Subsequent visits to Infants 726
Visits to Children aged 1—5 years 1,454
„ School children 22
Ante-natal Visits 69
Visits to cases of Tuberculosis 24
„ „ Measles 105
„ „ Pneumonia 7
„ „ Ophthalmia 1
„ „ Epidemic Diarrhoea 12
„ „ Whooping Cough 3
„ „ Puerperal Fever 1
The District Council make an annual grant of £50 to the Day
Nursery, and Dr. Chesser attends weekly to examine the children.
They also contribute £10 to the Carshalton, Beddington and Wallington
District Hospital to procure treatment for children who are found
to require it, on attendance at the Clinics, and for the administration
of anaesthetics in dental cases.
No case of Puerperal Fever or of Ophthalmia was notified, but
the Health Visitor paid visits to a patient, who was found to be
suffering from Puerperal Fever on admission to the London Hospital,
and also to an infant who was found to have Ophthalmia on attendance
at the Clinic. The homes at which cases of Measles and Whooping
Cough had been reported by the School Teachers were visited by the
Health Visitor, who distributed leaflets in respect of these diseases
and of Diarrhoea; there were no deaths during the year from any of
these diseases.
(6) Sanitary Administration.
(1) Staff.—Mr. C. P. Ingram, A.R.San.I., the Sanitary
Inspector, gives his whole time to the duties of the office.
(2) Hospital Accommodation.—The Isolation Hospital for the
District is the Cuddington Joint Isolation Hospital, which provides
accommodation for the Epsom Rural District, and the Carshalton,
Leatherhead, and Sutton Urban Districts, and is situated in the parish
of Cuddington, in the Epsom Rural District. The population of the
District served by the Hospital was 68,648 persons in all at the Census
of 1911, and 63,215 persons, exclusive of the patients in public
Institutions which belong to other Authorities.
The Hospital consists of two Ward Blocks, each containing two
wards for 6 and 8 beds respectively (capacity 12,000 and 16,000 cubic
feet), a third Ward Block containing two wards for 4 and 6 beds
(capacity 8,000 and 12,000 cubic feet), and a fourth Block containing
four wards for 3 beds each (capacity 5,500 cubic feet); a Discharging
Block containing 2 beds; Administrative Block, Disinfector, Laundry,
Mortuary, etc.