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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The work carried out during 1920 can be conveniently reported
under the following descriptive titles:—
1. General Organisation;
2. Health Visiting;
3. Consultation and Ante-natal Clinics;
4. Contributions to Maternity Hospitals providing
Midwifery assistance to necessitous mothers;
5. Provision of milk and other foods to necessitous mothers
and children.
1. General Organisation.
The Borough is divided for health visiting purposes into 11
districts, each of the voluntary organisations of the district—Eton
Mission and Hackney Grove Centres—being allotted a district, the
remaining nine districts being allotted to health visitors on the
Public Health Department staff.
Eton Mission and Hackney Grove conduct consultation clinics
but not ante-natal clinics, the two ante-natal clinics in the Borough
being municipal, and there are, in addition, three municipal infant
consultation clinics; giving a total of five consultation clinics,
municipal and voluntary, and two municipal ante-natal clinics for
the 11 districts of the Borough.
The voluntary organisations appoint and control their own
staff, both medical and health visiting, but the Maternity and Child
Welfare Committee is represented on the Executive Committees of
these institutions, and the work is carried on in the closest cooperation
and co-ordination with the municipal maternity and
child welfare work. The municipal consultation centres are staffed
and administered through the Public Health Department.
Part-time (temporary, i.e., not on the permanent staff) medical
officers have been appointed to conduct the work of the