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Maternity and Child Welfare.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
General Arrangements.
The comprehensive and more or less complete scheme
for attending to the health of expectant and nursing
mothers, and of children under 5 years of age, may be
summarised as it was in the Annual Report for last year,
as follows :—
Arrangements for the Care of the Mother.
1. The supervision of midwives.
2. The visiting of expectant mothers by Health
Visitors.
3. Consultations for expectant mothers (Ante-
Natal Clinic—Dr. Bell).
4. Home helps when necessary.
5. Maternity (midwife) aid when necessary.
6. Medical aid when the midwife requires skilled
help.
7. Consultant aid (Dr. Bell) when the medical
attendant requires assistance in abnormal or
complicated confinements.
8. Hospital provision for normal and abnormal or
complicated confinements.
9. Nursing at home of cases of puerperal fever.
10. Treatment at the Isolation Hospital of cases of
puerperal fever.
11. Dental treatment and the provision of artificial
dentures at the School Clinic for nursing
and expectant mothers.