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(j) The subsidisation of voluntary agencies providing, either free or at a reduced
rate, in hospital or at home, midwifery attendance for necessitous St. Pancras
women.
(k) The payment for the home nursing of sick infants in certain cases.
(l) A Centre for Artificial Sunlight treatment.
The work done in 1924 in connection with the scheme will now be referred to in detail:—
Advice Cards.—Besides the posting of cards of advice to the mothers of all infants
whose births have been notified, cards of advice to expectant mothers have be?n distributed
through University College Hospital, Middlesex Hospital, the Maternity Nursing Association,
and other agencies.
Home Visiting. —This has been done by the health visitors at the Town Hall and by the
Council's staff of health visitors at the Centres, who visit the mothers attending the Centres, and
also such notified births as are referred to them by the Medical Officer of Health.
The Town Hall health visitors, six in number, give approximately half of their time
to this work. These ladies in 1924 made 1404 visits to 348 infants (apart from visits made
to cases of measles and for other special purposes). They also made 449 visits to 255
expectant mothers.
The Council's visitors at the Infant Welfare Centres numbered 20 full-time workers,
who divide their time between the necessary work in the Centres and home visiting. In
addition there was one full-time voluntary (unpaid) trained worker at the Caversham Road
Centre, and two part-time trained volunte rs (unpaid) at Chalton Street, in addition to two
visitors (working in neighbouring boroughs as well as St. Pancras) at the University College
Hospital Centre, whose salaries were paid by the hospital, and not by the Council.
In 1924 the Council's staff at the various Centres made 40,793 visits to 3,438 children,
and 3,782 visits to 1,458 expectant mothers; the trained workers not paid by the Council made
11,687 visits to 785 children, and 390 visits to 208 expectant mothers.