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1920

149 expectant mothers were visited by the Health Visitors.
Post-Natal Work.
On Table 14 will be found a record of the attendances
made by the Health Visitors at the Child Welfare Centres, held
at the Priory Schools and the Palmerston Road Mission.
It will be seen that over 10,000 attendances by children were
made at these Centres during the year. In addition to these,
1,135 births were visited in their homes by the Health Visitors.
In many instances separate visits were paid to the homes where
births occurred.
Milk and Children's Order, 1919.
It may be adviseable to review the powers under which
the Council distributes milk free, and under cost price. Section
1 of the Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 1918, enacts that
any local authority within the meaning of the Notification of
Births Act, may make such arrangements as may be sanctioned
by the Local Government Board for attending to the health of
expectant mothers and nursing mothers, and children who have
not attained the age of 5 years, and are not being educated in schools
provided by the Local Education Authority.
Two Orders were made in 1919, both dated December 22nd.
One was made by the Ministry of Food and the other by the Ministry
of Health. Both had for their object the supply of milk to