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HOME HELPS.
Assistance towards the services of Home Helps was granted in 56
cases.
The time is not far distant when the Home Help will only be what
the name implies, and not, as often happened in the past, assistant
midwife. A trained Home Help is invaluable in the home. She cares
for the house and family thus relieving the mother from household
worry.
At the Town Hall a list of suitable women who act in this capacity
is supplied to expectant mothers and in necessitous cases the Maternity
and Child Welfare Committee may pay for their services.
ACCOUCHEMENT BAGS AND MATERNITY OUTFITS.
Accouchement Bags are available at the Centres and are loaned to
the mothers in suitable cases. Necessitous cases are given appropriate
consideration in the matter of payment, and Maternity Outfits are
provided and may be had at cost price.
CASES OF DISCHARGING EYE AND
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
48 cases of Discharging Eye occurred during the year, 10 of which
were notified as Ophthalmia Neonatorum.