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APPENDIX D.
Maternity and Child Welfare.
Municipal Offices,
Dyne Road, Kilburn, N.W.,
8th October, 1914.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Health Committee.
Maternity and Child Welfare.
I beg to report on the above subject, in accordance with
the following recommendation of the Health Committee,
duly adopted by the Council at its meeting held on the 29th
September, 1914:—
"Your Committee have received letters from the Local
Government Board, the Women's Co-operative
Guild, the Willesden National Relief Fund Executive
Committee, and the Willesden Branch of the
National Women's Labour League, calling attention
to the urgent necessity for making special
provision for expectant and nursing mothers, and
for child welfare, and recommend that the Medical
Officer of Health be instructed to submit a scheme
dealing with these matters."
The Medical Inspection of School Children has revealed
the fact that many children entering school at the age of
five are not up to the normal standard for that age in general
health, and in order to trace the causes operating to bring
about this lowered standard of vitality in young children it
is necessary to consider Ante-natal, Natal, and Post-natal
conditions.
Ante=natal Conditions.
At the present time there is no reliable data available
regarding these conditions, but it is well-known that many