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By arrangements with the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee, 425 individual children of school age attended the
Committee's Artificial Sunlight Clinic and 2,224 treatments given.
CHILD LIFE PROTECTION.
The Health Visitors, as Infant Life Protection Officers have,
during the year paid 84 visits to the 21 foster mothers in the area
in respect of 22 foster children.
The Adoption of Children (Regulation) Act, 1939, came into
force on 1st June, 1943, and certain provisions of this Act (Section 7)
resulted in an important extension of Maternity and Child Welfare
work. Two duties were imposed on Welfare Authorities, (1) in
relations to the adoption arrangements made in their area,
(2) regarding the supervision of certain children who are to be adopted
in all cases where the parents do not directly make their own
arrangements for adoption.
Subsection 3 of Section 7 makes it the duty of any person
(not parent, relative, or guardian or adopter), who participates in
the arrangements for the adoption of a child under 9 years, to notify
the Welfare Authority of the area in which the child is to be placed.
Change of residence of the adopter must also be notified.
Subsection 7 gives the Infant Life Protection Officer the
following statutory duties:—
1. To visit and examine adopted children under 9 years of
age, in the care and possession of adopters in their area.
2. To seek out any children in respect of whom a notice
should have been given.
3. To supervise, without compulsory powers, those children
placed by their own parents.