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Home Helps Although home helps as such are not provided by
you under any particular scheme, you do make
financial provision in cases of maternity which
are aided by you, because your scale of charges
in all such cases is drawn up so as to leave an
amount of money in the family exchequer
sufficient for this purpose.
Infant Welfare Clinics Infant Welfare Clinics are held each week at five
different Centres. These Clinics are available
for all children under the age of five years.
Maternity Services Maternity Home.—Upney Hospital is a maternity
home run by the Corporation. Applications for
admission are made at the Ante-Natal Clinics,
and the charges are in accordance with the
Council's scale.
Consultations.—There is a Specialist-Consultant
available for consultations in cases of puerperal
fever and puerperal pyrexia and in cases of
difficult labour.
Milk Grade "A" (T.T.) milk is supplied free of charge
and at half-price in certain necessitous cases of
•expectant and nursing mothers and babies, on
the recommendation of the Medical Officers at
the Clinics. Certain dried milks are similarly
supplied free, at half-price and at cost price.
Minor Ailments Treatment is given daily at the Central Clinic and
the Woodward Clinic to children under the age
of five years.
Ophthalmic Service Ophthalmic Clinics for expectant and nursing
mothers and toddlers are held at the Central
Clinic and Woodward Clinic. The scheme
includes the provision of spectacles at a very
low charge, and in some cases, where the family
income is below a certain scale, at no charge.
During the year four mothers and sixteen
children under the age of five years were
provided with spectacles under this scheme.