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" We have also received several gifts of material and warm
clothes.
" We are also indebted to Miss Price for her valuable assistance
in the Child Welfare Work during six months of last year.
" The appointment of Miss Stamford for three days a week
enabled the Child Welfare Work to be carried on far more
effectually than would otherwise have been possible during a
considerable part of the year."
The work of the Child Welfare Centre has continued to grow;
and even with the services of four excellent voluntary workers,
in addition to Dr. New, it was found impossible to cope with it
until further assistance was obtained by the part.time appointment
of Nurse Stamford. She is proving of the greatest service,
not only in the work of the Centre, but also in the home visitations,
which represent in my judgment the most important branch
of Child Welfare Work. This appointment has involved some
slight additional expense in connection with this Centre, but it is
an expense which all the circumstances amply justify. The
Government have agreed to provide, by means of Annual Grants
to be distributed bv the Local Government Board, one.half of the
cost of the whole or any part of schemes for Maternity and Child
Welfare approved by the Boa'd; and at the time of writing half of
our expenses for the year ending March, 1915, have been reimbursed
by the Board. The work is so obviously useful and of such
national importance that it calls for the adoption of yet more
extended and systematic measures. Extension is needed in two
directions; on the one hand, it is necessary that measures should
be taken for securing improved ante.natal and natal conditions,
and on the other, provision should be made for continuing the
work, in respect of certain children, beyond the first year of life
and up to the age of school attendance.
In April, 1915, arrangements were made whereby Dr. Helen
Gordon Clark, a London County Council Lecturer, delivered an
address, which was much appreciated by many of the women