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quarterly reports (or more often if required), including statistics and
statements of cases helped, &c., and as to attendances of such of its
members as are Councillors.
All particulars as regards care and after-care, arrangements for
finding employment for patients, and provision of extra nourishment
for patients living at home are referred to this Committee. They are
also responsible for assessing cases that go into sanatorium.
This Committee dealt with 207 cases during 1927.
Section 7.
Maternity and Child Welfare.
General arrangements made for attending to the Health of
expectant and nursing mothers and children under
five years of age.
Health Visitors and Visiting.
The Council employs three Health Visitors; the Borough being
divided between them. These Officers attend at the Infant Welfare
Centres, which are organised and controlled by the Hampstead Council
of Social Welfare; and endeavour to see that the advice there given is
carried out in the home. They also attend at the Borough Council's
Pre-Maternity Clinics and Dental Clinic.