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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 an Infant Welfare
Centre 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 compensation to midwives for loss of patients.
(e) Provision of sterilised maternity outfits.
(f) Dental treatment including the provision of dentures.
(g) Provision of Home Helps.
(h) Provision of home nursing assistance.
(i) Convalescent home treatment for expectant and nursing mothers.
(j) Provision of milk and dinners for necessitous mothers.
(k) Education on health matters.
(I) Investigation of maternal deaths and cases of puerperal fever and puerperal
pyrexia.
(m) Financial assistance towards the cost of institutional maintenance of
unmarried mothers.
2. Infants and Young Children.
(a) Public Health (London) Act, 1936, Notification of Births administration.
(b) The provision and maintenance of Infant Welfare Centres.
(c) Home visits by Health Visitors.
(d) Convalescent home treatment.
(c) The supply of milk to children of necessitous parents.
(/) Provision of home nursing services.
(g) Minor ailments treatment.
(h) Sunlight and massage treatment.
(») Child Life Protection.
Midwifery Service
The London County Council is the authority responsible for
the administration of the domiciliary midwifery service in
London under the provision of the Midwives Act, 1936, and in the
following table the names and addresses of midwives appointed by
that Authority to undertake midwifery and maternity nursing
duties in Area E. which comprises the Boroughs of Camberwell,
Deptford, Greenwich, Lewisham and Woolwich are set out.