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In connection with the disinfection 01 homes alter infectious
disease 133 articles of clothing were destroyed.
To render disinfection more thorough 140 rooms were stripped
and cleansed by the owners after notices were served on account of
dirty condition.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
In the Annual Report of the previous year the Special Report
on the steps necessary to extend the scheme of Maternity and
Child Welfare to the newly added areas of Hanwell and Greenford
was printed. The recommendations contained in this Report were
put into effect during the year and the new Centres were opened
at Cherington House, Hanwell, and at Aberdeen House, Greenford.
Both of these Centres have met with great success and are being
resorted to by the mothers in the areas served to a much greater
extent than was ever anticipated.
It has been the policy of the Council to arrange for Maternity
and Child Welfare work being carried on in the same building as
School Medical work, and as far as practicable to offer to children
under 5 years of age whatever form of treatment is available for
those of school age. In fact, these two forms of public health
work go hand in hand in a thoroughly co-ordinated manner, and
combined with the care of the expectant and nursing mother,
form a complete scheme of medical supervision, the direct object
of which is to ensure the rearing of robust children and thus a
healthy race. Such being the object of these Centres in the widest
sense, the Council have decided to discard the name "Maternity
and Child Welfare Centre and School Clinic," applied to each building
where the work is conducted, and to apply the name simply
"Health Centre," the term connoting the prevention of disease
and the fostering of good health as much by health education
as by preventive treatment.