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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
SERVICES.
The Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme includes
the following arrangements for the care of expectant and nursing
mothers and children under five years of age not attending school.
1. Maternity.
(a) Medical examination and supervision of pregnant women, and following
confinement, at ante-natal and post-natal Clinics held at Infant Welfare
Centres and at the L.C.C. St. Giles' and Dulwich Hospitals.
(b) The services of a Consultant at the request of a private medical practitioner
for any condition arising during pregnancy, parturition or during
the puerperium of patients confined at home.
(c) Home visits by Health Visitors to pregnant women.
(d) Payment of midwives' fees for confinements of necessitous persons in
their own homes.
(e) Payment of compensation to midwives for loss of patients.
(f) Provision of sterilised maternity outfits.
(g) Dental treatment including the provision of dentures.
(h) Provision of Home Helps.
(i) Provision of home nursing assistance.
(j) Convalescent home treatment for expectant and nursing mothers.
(k) Provision of milk and dinners for necessitous mothers.
(l) Education on health matters.
(m) Investigation of maternal deaths and cases of puerperal fever and puerperal
pyrexia.
(n) Contribution towards the cost of institutional maintenance of unmarried
mothers.
2. Infants and Young Children.
(a) Public Health (London) Act. 1936, Notification of Births administration.
(6) The provision and maintenance of Infant Welfare Centres.
(c) Home visits by Health Visitors.
(d) Convalescent home treatment.
(e) The supply of milk to children of necessitous parents.
(f) Provision of home nursing services.
(g) Minor ailments treatment.
(h) Sunlight and massage treatment.
(i) Child Life Protection.
Infant Welfare Centres.
In previous reports I have referred to the unsatisfactory nature
of the accommodation available for the conduct of Maternity and
Infant Welfare Services at certain Municipal and Voluntary Association
Centres in the Borough. The buildings in which these clinics
are held are not used exclusively for these purposes and they possess