[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, East Suffolk County Council.

  • East Suffolk (England). County Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, East Suffolk County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    III. MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE. This part of the Report deals with the Administrative County, excluding Lowestoft, which is its own Local Supervising Authority for Maternity and Child Welfare purposes. Nursing Staff. Supervisor of Midwives and Superintendent Health Visitor. Assistant Supervisor of Midwives and Assistant Superintendent Health Visitor. Health Visitors. No whole-time official is engaged upon health visiting; this work is carried out by the District Nurses employed by the Nursing Association in the area, who give part-time service as health visitors, tuberculosis visitors, infant life protection visitors and maternity nurses. TABLE X. SUMMARY OF VISITS PAID BY HEALTH VISITING STAFF. 1938. 1937. 1936. 1935. 1934. 1933. 1932. 1931. 1930. 1929. First visits to in- fants under 1 year 1,912 1,878 2,058 2,074 2,176 2,422 2,472 2,382 2,515 2,421 Re-visits to in- fants under 1 year 13,606 10,145 11,261 12,000 8,247 11,835 8,876 10,575 9,518 9,193 Visits to expec- tant mothers .... 8,997 8,874 9,728 8,699 7,794 7,577 6,323 7,417 8,433 5,692 Visits to children 1—6 years 26,523 24,155 25,344 26,141 27,720 26,811 28,670 28,121 28,068 26,755 Totals 51,038 45,052 48,391 48,914 45,937 48,645 46,341 48,495 48,534 44,061 This table shows that the work done by the Health Visiting Staff exceeds that of any previous year and in each category the visits have increased, particularly the revisits to children under one year of age. Nursing in the Home. I give below the number of District Nursing Associations in the Administrative County for the past 18 years :— 1921 36 1922 1923 1924 1925 43 46 49 52 1926 57 1927 60 1928 ... 64 1929 ... 67 1930 70 1931 73 1932 75 1933 75 1934 74 1935 73 1936 71 1937 66 1938 64