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64 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
suitable for children to return to after minor operations at
general hospitals.
Periodical visits are also made to Creches and institutions
for unmarried mothers and their children.
Duties at the Welfare Centres.—One of the Health
Visitors is present at each Welfare Centre or Ante-natal Clinic,
and some of them attend the Welfare Centre Committee
meetings.
The Superintendent of the Tooting Infant Welfare Centre,
who was appointed by the Voluntary Committee of the Centre,
resigned during the year, and in accordance with the Council's
decision made in 1927 to replace Superintendents with Health
Visitors as vacancies occur, one of the Council's Health Visitors
was appointed to act in this capacity.
The Health Visitors are now acting as Superintendents at
the Springfield, Fairfield and Tooting Infant Welfare Centres,
and these new arrangements are working very well.
Table XXXI. summarises the work of the Health Visitors
during the year in the six divisions of the Borough.