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its responsibility under the Maternity and Child Welfare
Act and be fully responsible for the provision and administration, so far as is practicable, of the Maternity and Child
Welfare Services in the Borough.
As a result, the Council, early in January of 1938, decided
to take over the services conducted by the Hammersmith
Infant Welfare Association.
Diphtheria Immunisation.
In my previous report I put forward the suggestion that
the fall in the numbers of children immunised was due to
the failure to attend for the second and third injections.
In May this year you adopted my recommendation that
the scheme should be amended to allow for the use of the
Alum Precipitated Toxoid " one-shot " method. A copy
of the amendment is as follows:—
" The Council has now approved of the immunisation
of children by what is known as the ' one-shot ' method
(Alum Precipitate) with a view to securing a larger number of immunised children, the use of this method to be
left to the discretion of the medical practitioner concerned.
The Council has agreed to continue the payment of
the fee of 10s. in respect of every child completely
immunised (to be controlled by the Schick test) and 5s.
for each case of incomplete or unsuccessful immunisation."
In view of this alteration in the scheme, the number of
children immunised during the year has, to say the least,
been very disappointing.
Milk.
During the year a considerable amount of time has been
spent in the supervision of the Milk Distributing Depots
established in the Borough.