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Convalescent Treatment—For Mothers after Confinement.
The Council have arrangements for the convalescence of
mothers after confinement. The method of referring cases to the
Charity Organization Society was discontinued, and a bed was
endowed at the St. Mary's Convalescent Home, Birchington, Kent.
In addition, cases are sent on payment to the Mayfield Convalescent
Home of the Association of Maternity and Child Welfare Centres,
which is, however, only open in the summer months. The new
arrangements made by the Council have been much appreciated
by the mothers of Finsbury, and the table below shows the
increased use made of the available beds.
Convalescence completed.
1932 3
1933 3
1934 2
1935 12
1936 3
1937 25
Health Visitations.
When a birth is notified, a packet is sent by post from the
Public Health Department to the mother, containing, for her
guidance and information, the following :—
Booklets—" How to Rear a Baby."
" The Truth about Vaccination."
Leaflets on :—
Details of the Public Vaccinators, times of attendance,
etc.
Particulars of the Municipal Day Nursery.
Dinner grants to expectant and nursing mothers.
Care after confinement.
Deaths from burns and scalds—fireguards.
*Milk for babies during the hot weather.
♦Summer diarrhoea.
*Beware the fly !
f Whooping cough.
fMeasles (two kinds),
jlnfluenza.
•Sent only from April to September.
fSent during periods of epidemics only.
When the baby is one year old, the following two leaflets aie
sent to the mother:—
Diphtheria Immunisation.
Impetigo.