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Home Nursing.
The services of the home nurse have been of the greatest
value. Her duties have been chiefly those of nursing in
their own homes infants and young children under the age
of five years and especially those suffering from ophthalmia
neonatorum, measles, whooping cough and summer
diarrhoea.
Nursing assistance has also been given in those cases of
puerperal fever where the patient has been nursed at home.
The remainder of the nurse's time has been occupied in
assisting in the work of the School Medical Service.
Infant Consultation Centres.
Arrangements were made at the end of 1919 to transfer
to Radnor House, the work carried on for the previous three
years at the Heath Road Centre. This has been a much
appreciated change. It has been possible, not only to see
a much larger number of children and mothers at each
session, but the more commodious premises and the fact
that the building is also the offices of the Public Health
Department have much facilitated and increased the
efficiency of the work, whilst it has been possible to develop
still further the social side.
The second centre at St. Margaret's has more than
fulfilled expectations and has proved a great convenience to
mothers in the eastern portion of the town.
The attendance throughout the year has been excellent.
The attendances for consultations during the year were
as follows:—
Children under one year 2336
Children over one year 645
Total children 2981
Mothers 80
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