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The visitors endeavour to keep in touch with the children up to
school age. In this way 7,006 children have been visited during 1914
Making allowance for removals, deaths, and infants found who had
been born elsewhere, there were at the end of the year 5,974 children on
the visiting list.
Maternity and Child Welfare.—Both the Local Government Board
and the Board of Education are prepared to give grants in respect of
work which is being done in connection with maternity and child
welfare by local authorities and by voluntary societies.
The first grant to be made by the Local Government Board was for
the six months ending the 30lh September, 1914.
The Board of Education has intimated that grants would be made
from that body for the twelve months which ended at the 25th March
last, and the City of Westminster Health Society has applied and has
received a grant in respect of its share of the work.
In this connection the Local Government Board issued a memolanduin
in which they set forth the lines on which they consider local
authorities should act. These are set out below, and in parallel columns
a synopsis is given, showing what is being done in Westminster by the
Council and voluntary agencies acting in co-operation.
(1) Arrangements for the The County Council is responsible under
local supervision of mid- the Midwives Act for the supervision
wives. of midwives, but where infectious
disease occurs in connection with their
practice, the City Council is directly
responsible under the Public Health
Act. Midwives have also to notify
the existence of Ophthalmia Neonatorum
to the Medical Officer of Health.
(2) Ante - natal arrangements:—
(a) Ante-natal clinic for The following hospitals send their lists of
expectant mothers. women who are to be attended from or
in those institutions to the Health
Society:—
Middlesex Hospital.
Charing Cross „
St. Thomas' „
St. George's „
Westminster „
York Road Lying-in Hospital.
Other cases are notified by the women