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As to the Child.
(1) Visiting of infants and children under 5 years of age at
their homes by the Health Visitors.
(2) Consultations for children up to 5 years of age at the
Welfare Centre (Dr. Grace Banham).
(3) Treatment of wasting and badly nourished children as
in-patients at the Ealing King Edward Memorial Hospital.
(4) Orthopaedic treatment of crippled children or those in
whom crippling may result unless special treatment is provided.
This form of treatment is carried out in association with the School
Clinic in connection with which a scheme has been evolved by which
these children are treated at the National Orthopaedic Hospital at
Great Portland Street or at Stanmore and afterwards given massage
at the School Clinic, the treatment being carried out under that
close supervision which the treatment demands if it is to prove
successful. It is hoped that by means of the scheme early and
continuous treatment will be possible and that a large amount of
crippling will thus be prevented. By treatment at an early age
the necessity of much treatment later, when the child is of school
age, will be avoided.
(5) Treatment of dental caries, diseases of the naso-pharynx
(enlarged tonsils and adenoids), abnormal conditions of the eyes
and minor ailments is given at the School Clinic when the parents
cannot afford to pay for treatment privately. Operations for
circumcision are carried out at the King Edward Hospital. In all
of these cases charges are made in accordance to the financial
circumstances of the parents.
(6) Milk is supplied free for children whose parents are in
necessitous circumstances. In addition dried milk, cod liver oil,
liquid paraffin and Virol are supplied at cost price to mothers.
(7) The Day Nursery at Hanwell admits up to six children from
Ealing. These are children of widows or unmarried mothers who
have to go out to work during the day but who can care for the
children at night.
(8) Home nursing of cases of measles, ophthalmia neonatorum,
whooping cough, poliomyelitis and epidemic diarrhoea is carried
out by the Health Visitors when this is required. It is seldom,
however, that their services in this respect are called for.