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(xi) Provides the services of Home Helps to
relieve women of domestic work during confinement
; and
(xii) Supplies a sterile maternity outfit.
(xiii) Mothers recovering from confinement, also
ailing children, are sent away for convalescent
treatment.
(xiv) In-patient operative treatment is provided
for children with enlarged tonsils, etc.
(xv) Nursing assistance in a variety of illnesses
is provided through the agency of the District
Nursing Association.
If the Council's welfare work were a commercial
undertaking, its merits would doubtless be proclaimed
by posters and newspaper headlines. Municipal enterprise
is more modest but none the less appreciates such
testimonials as the following: —
" I am writing to you thanking you very much indeed
for the lady which you sent to me for assistance while my
wife was in hospital. I am sure that the lady is worthy
of all the appreciation which I can give to her for the
way that she did her work and cleaned in every way. The
lady is worth all that we can wish for her, as she was
very good and kind to all the children and everything done
to the very best, and I thank you very much for sending
her along to me and the family."
" I wish to write and thank you for the excellent services
of the Borough Council's Home Help during my cnfinement."
Another pleasant indication of the simple human
feeling which animates this work is the fact that
mothers frequently make gifts to the Centre for issue
to others less fortunate of children's clothing, perambulators,
etc., for which they no longer have use.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACTS,
1907 AND 1915.
During the year, 1,299 live births were registered
in the Borough; and 1,275 births were notified to