[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council.

  • Derbyshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUMMARY OF WORK DONE BY HEALTH VISITORS DURING 1946. TABLE XXIX. 1. Maternity and Child Welfare. (a) Ante-Natal Clinics ;— Number of Sessions • • • • • • 807 Attendances:— Ante-Natal ... 18,899 Post-Natal ... 131 19,030 Auxiliary Treatment Centre :— Number of Sessions • • • • • • 13 Attendances :— Ante-Natal 52 Post-Natal ... — 52 (6) Visits to Homes :— Expectant Mothers :— First Visits ... 1,691 Subsequent Visits ... 813 2,504 Infants;— First Visits ... ... 8.228 Other Visits (under 1 year) ...17,157 Visits to Children (1 to 5 vears)... 42,025 67,410 (c) Infant Welfare Centres ;— Number of Sessions • • • • • • 2,760 Attendances :— Expectant Mothers ... ... 366 Infants under 1 year... ...49,558 Children over 1 year... ...24,214 74,138 (d) Child Life Protection Visits ... • • • • • • 546 (e) Boarded-out Visits • • • • • • 887 If) Mothercraft—^Number of Lectures ... . • • 73 2. Tuberculosis Dispensaries. Number of Sessions attended • • . • • . 1,050 Number of Visits to Homes ... 5,233 3. Miscellaneous Visits ... ... 1,955 4. School Nursing Service. Every Health Visitor in this County is also a School Nurse and has, therefore, cariied out a great deal of w'ork in addition to that enumerated above in connection with School Medical Inspections at Both primary and secondary schools, examinations of children in schools for verminous conditions, and the following up of cases referred for treatment or observation.