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(vii) Child Life Protection.
Your Health Visitors are appointed Child Life Protection
Visitors under the Public Health Act, 19-36.
The children under nine years of age who are nursed
for reward or gain, are periodically visited in their respective
homes. The particulars regarding the number
of foster parents and nurse children on the Council's
Register are as follows : —
Number of foster parents:-
(a) At the beginning of the year 61
(b) At the end of the year 54
Number of children :
(a) At the beginning of the year 73
(b) At t'he end of the year 70
(viii) Records.
It has always been the custom to forward copies of
records to the Medical department of the Local Education
Authority, and in order to obtain further co-operation
as outlined in the Ministry's Circular of 1936 on the
Health of the Pre-School Child, the principle of correlating
the local Welfare Services with those of the rest of
the County has been adopted and it has been agreed that
so far as possible similar provisions and arrangements
will be made throughout the county.
(ix) Maternity Outfits.
During the year a scheme was approved to provide
a maternity bag and/or a sterilised outfit in tlie case of
domiciliary confinements at a charge of 5s. each or less,
according to circumstances. Articles of wear and bed
linen are required to be returned after the confinement.
Three sterilised outfits were loaned during the ye tr,
all issued free.
(x) Compensation for loss of case.
A scheme was approved in 1937, whereby a midwife
could be compensated to the extent of ten shillings and
sixpence for loss of a booked case by a patient being sent
to hospital from an ante-natal clinic.
No such cases were dealt with during the year.
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