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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Work of the Health Visitors.
The duties of the Health Visitors are as follows:—
Infant Visiting.—Infants are visited as soon as information
of birth is received either by notification or from the Registrar
of Births and Deaths, and re-visits are made before the end of
the first year and up to school age.
The re-visits of infants attending the Infant Welfare Centres
are carried out by the Superintendents of the Centres. In six
of the twelve Centres in the Borough the Superintendents are
appointed by the Committees of the Centres and the re-visits
of infants attending these Centres are made by them.
In each of the other six Centres, one of the Health Visitors is
now acting as Superintendent in accordance with the Council's
decision made in 1927 to replace Superintendents appointed by
the Centre Committees with Health Visitors as vacancies occur.
All the re-visits in these six districts are therefore carried out by
the Health Visitors, whether the infants are attending the Centres
or not.
The six Centres where one of the Health Visitors is the Superintendent
are Fairlight Hall, Lynwood Road, Springfield, Fairfield,
Streatham Hill and Putney. At those Centres where the Superintendent
is the officer of the Centre Committee, one of the Health
Visitors assists her at all Infant Welfare and Ante-Natal sessions.
Where the Superintendent is one of the Health Visitors she is
assisted at the sessions by another Health Visitor.
Infectious Diseases.—All cases of Puerperal Fever,
Puerperal Pyrexia, Whooping Cough and Ophthalmia Neonatorum
are visted on notification, as well as all known cases of
Measles and Diarrhoea in children under five.
Other Home Visits.—The Health Visitors visit the homes
of mothers attending the ante-natal Centres in the Borough,