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The Registrar-General's corrected number of births is, t her fore,
6,435, differing slightly from the corrected number of births calculated
locally and found in this Report, viz., 6,661.
Lambeth Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
During 1916 (April 13th) the Council approved the inauguration
of the Lambeth Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme for amalgamating
and co-ordinating with the Council's Official Public
Health Work, the whole of the work of the various present and
future non-official or voluntary agencies which are engaged in maternity
and child welfare work throughout the Borough ; and, in connection
with such scheme, sanctioned the appointment of an additional
official Health Visitor*, to be attached to the Public Health
Department.
The special Report of the Medical Officer of Health dealing
with the subject is as follows :—
REPORT.
Maternity and Child Welfare.
(a) General Considerations.
No more important subject could engage a Public Health
Authority's attention at the present time than that of Maternity
and Child Welfare. With the present War wastage of human
life, and with the consequent shortage of available husbands and
prospective fathers, it becomes the more necessary to adopt all
available means, and to take all precautionary measures, to
secure the health of mothers, and to conserve, if possible, the life
*Nurse Annie Stirk was appointed Health Visitor on July 27th,
1916, commencing her duties on September Ist, 1916.