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City, at 1, Pimlico Road, under Dr.
J. C. Jewesbury, Physician in charge
of Children's Department, Charing
Cross Hospital; Physician for Outpatients,
Victoria Hospital for Children,
Tite Street, Chelsea. Assisted by the
Council's Health Visitor and the
Society's Visitors. Advice is given to
mothers about their children, and
treatment is provided by referring to
Charing Cross or Victoria Hospitals,
where children are seen by Dr.
Jewesbury.
In the north some are also dealt
with by the Middlesex Hospital.
(c) Continuation of these The clinics are available for children up
clinics up to school life. to school age. Records are kept on
similar lines to those made use of by
school medical inspectors, and copies
are supplied to the latter when the
children enter school.
(d) Systematic house visiThis is carried out by the Council's
tation of infants and Health Visitor, Mrs. Watkinson, in
children. co-operation with the Visitors of the
Health Society. She also assists in
carrying out the previously mentioned
arrangements of the scheme.
Close co-operation exists between the
Society, the School Care Committees,
the Invalid Children's Care Association,
and other bodies, so as to prevent
over-lapping.
The Health Society have arranged for the formation of a third
Infant Clinic Centre, in St. John's Ward, to begin in January. In
addition the Society conducts mothercraft classes at both centres, these
include cookery, sewing, cutting-out garments, and health talks.
Offices for the Society and the Health Visitor are provided at No. 1,
Pimlico Road.
Dinners for necessitous expectant and nursing mothers are provided
at Napier Hall, Vincent Square, by Mrs. Methold. No part of the
grant is at present available in aid of such expenditure.