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5. Dental Clinic. Two dental surgeons each attend one session
per week fox dental inspection and treatment. Dentures are
provided, where necessary, for expectant and nursing mothers.
6. Orthopædic treatment. Children found to require orthopaedic
advice and treatment are referred to specialists at the
Queen's Hospital, where appliances or in-patient treatment,
including operations, are provided at the Council's expense.
7. Massage. A Masseuse attends six sessions a week to give
massage to mothers and children found to require this form of
treatment.
The following services are also provided
8. Milk Grants. Grants of milk are made to necessitous
expectant and nursing mothers and young children.
9. Midwifery. A trained midwife is employed, who conducts
confinements in the Borough.
10. Obstetric Consultants. There is also a panel of Obstetric
Consultants whose services are available, at the Council's expense,
to local doctors in any difficult or abnormal confinement.
11. Home Helps. The Council has a panel of Home Helps
whose services are available to relieve mothers of their domestic
work immediately after confinement.
12. Maternity Outfits. Sterile maternity outfits can be
obtained from the Centre by expectant mothers who are being
confined at home.
13. Convalescent treatment. Mothers recovering from confinement,
also ailing children, are sent away to the country or seaside
for convalescence.
14. Enlarged Tonsils, etc. Children found to be suffering from
enlarged tonsils, adenoids and mastoid disease are provided with
in-patient operative treatment at the Queen's Hospital.
15. Nursing. Nursing assistance in a variety of illnesses is
provided through the agency of the local District Nursing Association.
16. Breast Feeding Clinic. This Clinic is held once a week
to endeavour to continue breast feeding.
17. Though it is not strictly part of the Maternity and Child
Welfare service, I should also mention that there is held at the
Cornwall Road Centre, a Mothers' Clinic, at which contraceptive
advice is given to women coming within the terms of the Ministry
of Health memorandum on the subject. This is conducted by
the Assistant Medical Officer and is held two sessions per month.
It will be seen from this cursory survey that the Maternity
and Child Welfare service is very comprehensive and covers
practically all the branches available to the Council. The branches
of work not carried out by the Council are (a) Maternity Home,
(b) Day Nursery, (c) General Hospital provision for children.
With regard to the first and third of these it may reasonably
be held that the facilities available at the Bethnal Green Hospitals