WORK OF DISTRICT NURSE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14713, 3 July 1948, Page 5

WORK OF DISTRICT NURSE

REPORT PRESENTED TO PLUNKET SOCIETY

NOTIFICATION OF 461 BIRTHS RECEIVED

A summary of the work carried out during the past year by the •Tauranga District Plunket Nurse, Miss A. E. Hally, and presented at the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the society held recently, is as follows:

Birth notifications received, Tauranga headquarters 275, To Puke 117, Katikati 38, Mount Maunganui 31, total 461; number of mothers contacted in nursing homes, 210, 86, 31, 28, 355; number of new baby cases, 196, 71, 31, 28, 326; number of babies naturally fed when first seen, 134, 52, 22, 22, 230; number of babies partly naturally fed when first seen, 20, 5,1, 1, 27; number of babies artificially fed when first seen, 42, 14, 8,5, 69; visits to homes (to babies), 436, 9,4, 1, 450; visits to homes (to pre-school children), 36; visits of babies to rooms, 3497, 1177, 547, 413, 5634; visits of pre-school children to rooms, 139, 102, 22, 31, 294; visits of adults to rooms, 3683, 1217, 556, 430, 5886; expectant mothers advised (mothercraft only), 37, 12, 1,2, 52; number of children

I immunised at Plunket Rooms, j against diphtheria, 32, 42, 31, 0, 105, 1 number of babies under supervision, j 297, 80, 34, 34, 445; total number of J pre-school children under supervision, 46, 13, 4,7, 75; car mileage (total mileage only). 3633; transfers from other centres (total only), 42: transfers to other centres (total only), 19; letters of advice written (total enly), 7; telephone consultation (total only), 626.