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(c) To save time, these bodies will forward their information
and recommendations direct to the several ward committees
who at this present juncture have the consideration of relief
under H.R.H. Prince of Wales' National Fund ; and at the
same time copies of such information and recommendations
will be forwarded to this Department by the Poplar Infant Care
Association and St. Katharine's College, the same being entered
in the card index system here.
(d) When the statutory notification of their birth is received
here the requisition for the visitation can be forwarded to the
health visitor who has had the particular case in hand before
the birth of the child.
I will point out to the representative of the Poplar Infant Care
Association that from their circular letter it is apparent the Local
Government Board desire that children should be visited not only
for one year, as has been previously undertaken, but until their
names of the children are entered on a school register, etc., etc.
I have mentioned to the Principal of St. Katharine's College,
the Representative of the Poplar Infant Care Committee, and also
to my Committee that for the scheme to work successfully the initiative
and records must be at these offices, and I may say now that
that has been practically agreed upon.
Without doubt the Board have been supplied with a copy of the
Rules of the College of St. Katharine, made by Viscount Haldane.
I enclose herewith a set of pamphlets which are posted to all
mothers in the Borough and would call your particular attention to
the one— "Mother Bring Your Baby to be Weighed."
I am, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
(Sgd.) Fredk. Wm. Alexander,
Medical Officer of Health.
P.S.— I note the remarks in the Board's circular relative to
securing co-operation with midwives. Up to the present I have not
suggested any such co-operation, but I can quite appreciate that
a circular letter can be forwarded to midwives practising in the
Borough asking them to choose such cases as in their judgment
would benefit by visits before and after birth."