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Summary of Work Carried Out (Total Visits Paid) by the
4 Whole-time Official Health Visitors during 1927.
Births* 1,735 Welfare Centres and
Still-births 129 Maternity Home
Ophthalmia neonatorum dances) 568
cases* 374 School children† 2
Epidemic diarrhoea cases 30 Expectant mothers (visits) 1,022
Milk Depot (attendances) 92 Special inspections§ 1,314
Dep6t children (visits) 133
N.B.—In addition to the above, 1,302 visits were paid to houses
but no one was found to be at home.
The above returns are to be read in conjunction with the footnotes
on the two previous pages, dealing with the work of the Female
Sanitary Inspectors, who paid 117 visits to children between 1 and
5 years, viz. : Enlarged tonsils and adenoids, 78 ; tuberculosis, 39.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
Factories.
10 new tactories were added to the Register, dealing with (a)
Honey Refining, 1; (b) Dress-making, 3; (c) Boot Tips, 1; (d)
Neckwear, 1; (e) Pleating, 1; (f) Tobacco, 1; (g) Wireless, 1;
(h) Printing, 1.
Workshops.
20 new workshops (including 3 Domestic workshops) were
added to the Register, dealing with:—Boots, 1; Furrier, 1; Millinery,
1; Spice, 1; Dress-making, 11; Shoe Dyeing, 1; Ties, 1;
Tailoring, 3
*Including revisits as follows Births, 1,405 (of which 813 were paid
to children between 1 and 5 years of age); Ophthalmia neonatorum cases
253.
t Special enquiries infectious diseases.
§ Including housing, 821 (visits); infantile deaths, 160 (visits); puerperal
pyrexia, 34 (visits); [and others, 299 (visits).