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E.S.—No parents, lives with her grandparents; very
uncared-for.
W.D. & E.F.—Father consumptive, unable to leave his
bed; respectable people; mother very hardworking,
but has a very hard struggle to
provide for the children, and at times food is
very scarce.
V.G.—This child was at one time very dirty and
neglected, but is improving; the father is in
work, but the mother does not keep the home
well; at the time of visit it was dirty and
untidy.
G.B.—Large family; father dead; parish allows a little;
mother a clean hard-working woman and does
her best for the children.
A.B.—Father a cripple, unable to work; mother a hardworking
and respectable woman who does her
best for the children.
HEALTH VISITOR.
During the year Miss Radford has continued her
valuable work as Health Visitor. Her salary is contributed
to by the Education Committee and the Public Health
Committee. Two-thirds are allocated for education purposes
and one-third for the Notification of Births Act work.
The education work has consisted in visiting the schools
periodically, following up the cases thus found, and also
those that have been notified as requiring treatment on the
routine medical inspection work or other examination, discovering
whether any treatment has been carried out, and,
if not, endeavouring to get the parents to have the defects
remedied I give a summary of the results of the two great
classes of defects found, one, those inspected by the Health
Visitor herself and presented by the teachers on visiting the