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ANTE - AND POST-NATAL CLINICS
Sessions are conducted in Council clinics by midwives and medical officers for
ante - and post natal examinations. In addition four general practitioners undertake
ante-natal work for their own patients in Council clinics which are made available
to them free of charge, and with a domiciliary midwife in attendance (Statistics on
page 80 )
ANTENATAL MOTHERCRAFT AND RELAXATION CLASSES
These classes are held by domiciliary midwives and health visitors in Council
clinics for both institutional and domiciliary booked cases. (Statistics on page 80).
ADOPTION AND BOARDING OUT OF CHILDREN
Adoption
Persons proposing to adopt children are required to submit medical certificates
as to their health before achild is placed with them These certificates are verified
by the Medical Officer of Health before consent is given.
Similarly, the medical records of the children to be adopted are scrutinised and
the Director of Social Services advised on the child's suitability for adoption.
Should the reports reveal any medical defects, inheritable disease or handicap
in the child, further enquiries are made and, in the case of inheritable disease in
the natural parents, the prospective parents are interviewed by their own practitioner.
Boarding -Out
The medical examination is given in accordance with the Boarding Out of Children
Regulations, 1955. and includes the Wasserman and/or Kahntests except where the child
is over school leaving age or is boarded out in an emergency or in accordance with
Part III of the Regulations. Again.the results of these medical examinations are
scrutinised in the Health Department and the Director of Social Services informed as
to their suitability.

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