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If this accommodation is not entirely available, it will be quite
easy, by omitting some of the foregoing proposals, or by arranging
that one room shall serve two or more purposes, to secure a
centre still capable of good thorough useful work.
Staff of The Maternity Centres Duties of Assistant
Medioal Officer
At each centre, there is a superintendent and a charwoman.
The same dispenser attends at both centres. The centres are
under the control of the Medical Officer of Health, and the Assistant
Medical Officer of Health. The Assistant Medical Officer
of Health is appointed for Maternity and Child Welfare purposes
and his duties include the following :—
1. To work under the supervision and control of the
nity and Child Welfare Committee and of the Medical
Officer of Health.
2. To supervise the work of the three health visitors and
two Maternity superintendents, and in this connection
to visit "special babies" either independently, or at
the request of the Medical Officer of Health, the
health visitors or maternity superintendents. "Special"
babies include those who are premature, illegitimate,
twins, wasting, difficult to feed, babies whose mothers
are widows, ill, dead, or at work, babies in chargc
of foster mothers, babies who are below the usual
standards of weight for age, and babies who require
visiting for any other reason. Nursing help may be
obtained for such babies at the expense of the Borough
Council.
3. Attendance at the various clinics—ante-natal and
natal.
4. The administration of anaesthetics when required.
5. To visit cases of measles, diarrhoea, pneumonia and
whooping cough notified to the Borough Council. To
suggest treatment in suitable cases when no doctor is
in attendance, and to issue requisitions for nursing