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Council's staff of health visitors, who work (a) from the Town Hall and (4)
from the Centres.
(c) The provision and maintenance of Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
These Centres are partly maintained on a voluntary basis; but the whole of the
professional staff (medical officers and health visitors) are paid and controlled
by the Council, who also pay the rent, rates and taxes of the Centre premises.
(d) The provision of a clinic for ailing mothers and young children, the expenses
being borne partly by municipal and partly by voluntary funds.
(e) The provision of a municipal dental clinic for mothers and young children.
(F) The subsidisation of a Home for ailing young children.
(g) The supply of milk, free or at reduced price, for necessitous mothers (nursing
or expectant) and young children ; and the subsidisation of a voluntary fund for
the provision of dinners for nursing and expectant mothers.
(A) The subsidisation of a voluntary fund for the provision of Home Helps.
(i) The subsidisation of the three voluntary Day Nurseries in the Borough.
(,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.
(/) A Centre for Artificial Light treatment.
(m) The visiting and supervision of necessitous children under 5 years of age
upon discharge from the Borough Poor Law Hospitals.
(n) The provision of convalescent home treatment by means of subsidy to voluntary
agencies.
(o) The provision of consultations with an obstetric specialist, bacteriological
examination and skilled nursing in connection with necessitous cases of
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia,
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 been distributed
through University College Hospital, Middlesex Hospital, the Maternity Nursing Association,
and other agencies.
Home Visiting.— The Council's Health Visitors at the Welfare Centres are full.time
workers (18 in number), who divide their time between the necessary work at the Centres
and visiting the homes of the mothers and children. In addition there was one full.time
trained worker, not paid by the Council, at the Caversham Road Centre, and one part.time
trained voluntary (unpaid) worker at the Chalton Street and Grafton Road Centres. There
were also two trained visitors at the University College Hospital Centre, who worked in
neighbouring boroughs as well as in St. Pancras, and whose salaries were paid by the hospital
authorities, and not by the Council.
During 1927 the Council's staff at the various Centres made 29,422 visits to 3,007
children, and 2,039 to 900 expectant mothers; the trained workers not paid by the Council
made 10,173 visits to 415 children, and 140 visits to 43 expectant mothers.