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Prevention of Diphtheria, An Immunisation Clinic is held every Monday
Scarlet Fever and Whooping morning at the Central Clinic.
Cough.
Gynaecological Clinic
Gynaecological Clinics are held as and when
required.
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.
District Maternity Service.—Pursuant to the Midwives
Act, 1936 you have appointed five
midwives to practise in the district, and you are
also entering into agreements with the Plaistow
Maternity Hospital and District Nurses' Home
and the Salvation Army with a view to establishing
an adequate service of domiciliary midwifery
throughout the Borough. Application
for the services of the midwives may be made at
the midwives' homes or 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 abnormal
pregnancy, puerperal fever and puerperal
pyrexia and in cases of difficult labour.