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etc., Act, 1909, prohibiting the use of these for human habitation
until, in the judgment of the Council, they are rendered fit for that
purpose.
I remain,
Yours obediently,
(Sgd.) J. King Warry, M.D., D.P.H., etc.,
Medical Officer of Health.
REPORT AS TO ANTE-NATAL WELFARE.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Hackney, E.8.
3rd January, 1918.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Public Health Committee.
Gentlemen,
Maternity and Infant Welfare.
The Committee will remember that in April, 1916, they presented
to the Borough Council a report on Maternity and Infant
Welfare in the Borough, recommending that two Infant
Welfare Centres be established, and four additional Health Visitors
be appointed for home visitation and attendance at the Centres.
It was also recommended at that time that the complete measures
for dealing with ante-natal and natal mortality should be
suspended until after the War.
In January, 1917, the Council was recommended to establish
another Infant Centre. The three Centres have been satisfactorily
working up to the present time.
In the circular letter of the Local Government Board, dated
July, 1914, the Board called attention to the necessity for extending
the measures for preventing infant mortality, as follows:—
"Extension of the existing work is needed in two directions:
on the one hand it is necessary that measures should be