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Consideration of this report by the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee has led to the provision of the equipment referred to by
the Council's Dental Surgeon and equipment of the very latest
and most efficient type has been installed under the supervision
of the Dental Surgeon who has taken the very greatest care and pains
to ensure that the equipment was of the very best kind obtainable.
In everything relating to the equipment and administration of
the Clinic the interest and activity of the Dental Surgeon has been
invaluable to the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee. It was
due to the great interest shown by the Dental Surgeon that the
Clinic has run so smoothly and efficiently since its inauguration and
has been of such enormous value to the maternity and child welfare
service.
PROVISION OF MATERNITY HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION,
MIDWIVES AND MIDWIFERY ASSISTANCE, ARRANGEMENTS
FOR INVESTIGATION OF MATERNAL DEATHS AND
CASES OF PUERPERAL FEVER AND PUERPERAL PYREXIA,
CONSULTANTS FOR DIFFICULT MATERNITY CASES, HOMES
FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN, HOME HELPS AND NURSING
ASSISTANCE.
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Maternity Hospital Accommodation.—The Council pays the
sum of one guinea in respect of each necessitous person admitted
from the Borough for treatment at either of the under-mentioned
hospitals. Expectant women are deemed to be eligible for assistance
under this scheme if, by reason of poverty or other cause, they are
unable to pay an amount equal to one-half the average cost per
patient of the maintenance and administration charges of the
hospital concerned for the preceding year.

Convalescent Home Treatment.—It has not been necessary to
make any alteration to the agreement which has existed for some
years between the Council and the Invalid Children's Aid Association
under which the Association arranges, on behalf of the Council,
convalescent home treatment. Under this arrangement the Council