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3. During labour and during the confinement.—
The furnishing of skilled and prompt attendance at home
—doctors, midwives, or lying-in nurses.
The treatment of difficult cases; for example, of mothers
with contracted pelves, with diseases of the womb, heart,
lungs, or kidneys.
If a consultation centre or antenatal clinic were established,
these difficulties would have been probably discovered
and already referred to a hospital for special
treatment.
4. After the birth of the child.—
(a) The mother.—The treatment of complications arising
during pregnancy—e.g., white leg, or puerperal fever.
(b) The home visitation of infants and of children up to
five years of age in connection, for instance, with the
following matters:—
The medical history of such children recorded for the
use of educational authorities.
The treatment and recognition of the common nonnotifiable
infectious diseases, such as measles and
hooping cough.
The care and feeding of such children and the prevention
of diarrhoea and rickets.
The recognition and treatment of early unsuspected
cases of tuberculosis and arranging for the examination
of the contacts.
The correction of sanitary defects of environment
re-acting adversely upon the health of the children.
Dealing with complaints as to neglect, ill-treatment,
or exposure, and referring them to the appropriate
authorities.
(r) A clinic for infants and children up to five years of age,
and to which they would be brought for medical examination
and treatment.
The early correction of defective vision.