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Child Welfare.
MEASLES.
534 Home visits were made during the spring epidemic, advice
given and nursing help obtained, and beds provided at the Hospital.
Deaths 15, including 2 outside the district.
INFLUENZA.
66 Visits were made to the homes, and some nursing undertaken.
With Influenza and Measles it should be mentioned that
during epidemics extra nursing help is required, otherwise the
ordinary work must be neglected. In recent years the extra help
has been unobtainable owing to the shortage of nurses.
SCHOOL AND CLINIC WORK.
A good deal of the Health Visitors' time is spent at the various
clinics, viz : Eye, Teeth, Medical and Attendance, some 200 visits
were made. In Mortlake also 268 visits were paid to the schools
and over 10,000 children examined for cleanliness ; 88 were excluded
and 14 parents were prosecuted.
80 Visits were also made at the Tuberculosis Dispensary.
SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME HELPS,
1. Women of good character and approved by the L.A.
2. Should have 3 months' training at a school for mothers, or
at least a certificate of having attended a course of lectures on
Home Nursing.
3. Instruction to include needlework, cooking, temperature
taking, laundry, domestic economy and hygiene, and the elementary
principles of sociology.
4. A register of such applicants to be kept by the L.A.
5. L.G.B. will refund half the salaries of approved and
registered " Helps."
The Child Welfare Committee has been reconstituted according
to L.G.B. suggestion, and now contains 8 members of the Council
and 4 ladies representing various women's organisations.
The Day Nursery continues to do good work in the district by
taking care of children whose mothers go out to work, Their