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Foot Clinic:—Comprehensive treatment to all members of the public is
afforded.
Gynaecological Clinics:—These are held regularly and, where necessary,
in-patient treatment is arranged.
Home Helps:—The Council employ full-time and part-time home helps,
chiefly to assist women in their homes at the time of the confinement.
They are, however, also employed in other selected cases.
Immunisation Treatment:—Inoculations are undertaken for diphtheria,
scarlet fever and whooping cough.
Infant Welfare Clinics:—These clinics are held each week at five different
centres.
MATERNITY SERVICES
Maternity Home:—The Barking Maternity Unit is run by the Corporation
and consists of Upney Hospital and beds in Harvey Ward of
Barking Hospital.
Emergency Maternity Homes:—Where home confinement is impracticable
and no accommodation is available at the Barking Maternity
Unit, patients are sent outside the district under the London County
Council's scheme.
District Maternity Service:—Pursuant to the Midwivcs Act, 1936,
midwives have been appointed by the Council to practise in the
district and agreement has been made with the Plaistow Maternity
Hospital and District Nurses' Home, and the Salvation Army in order
to establish an adequate service of domiciliary midwifery throughout
the Borough.
A maternity outfit is provided free to each patient and, where
it is necessary for a doctor to be called in by a midwife, no additional
charge is made to the patient for this service.
Consultations:—There is a Specialist Consultant available for consultation
in cases of abnormal pregnancy, puerperal pyrexia and in
cases of difficult labour.
Medicines, Supply of:—Arrangements exist with local chemists by which
prescriptions are dispensed free in necessitous cases for mothers and
children attending the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres. In addition,
insulin is supplied free of charge to the poorer inhabitants of the Borough,
who are not eligible for such supply under other schemes.
Milk and Subsidiary Food:—These are provided in necessitous cases free
of charge to children under five years of age and to nursing and expectan:
mothers.