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The provision of a clinic for ailing mothers and young children, the expenses
being borne partly by municipal and partly by voluntary funds.
The provision of a municipal dental clinic.
The subsidisation of a Home for ailing young children.
The supply of milk, free or at reduced price.
The subsidisation of the four voluntary Day Nurseries in the Borough.
The payment for the home nursing of sick infants in certain cases.
A Centre for Artificial Light treatment.
The provision of convalescent home treatment by means of subsidy to voluntary
agencies.
The above-mentioned activities are dealt with in detail in the following pages.
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 (19 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
and one part-time trained worker, not paid by the Council, at the Caversham Road Centre,
and one part-time trained voluntary (unpaid) worker at the Somers Town Centre. 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, and three trained visitors at the Royal Free Hospital.
During 1932 the Council's staff at the various Centres made 21,914 visits to 2,528
children, and 2,648 visits to 1,387 expectant mothers; the trained workers not paid by the
Council made 7,472 visits to 558 children, and 661 visits to 475 expectant mothers.