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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Ealing 1966

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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Table: 4. CARE OF MOTHERS AND YOUNG CHILDRENMothers and young children constitute a priority group of the community for which the local health authority provides a comprehensive service of medical and social care, the extent of which, under the National Health Service Act, 1946, is as follows:-

4. CARE OF MOTHERS AND YOUNG CHILDREN

Mothers and young children constitute a priority group of the community for which the local health authority provides a comprehensive service of medical and social care, the extent of which, under the National Health Service Act, 1946, is as follows:-

Section of the Act
1.The provision of health clinics in which ante-natal, post-natal and child welfare sessions are held.22
2.The provision of day nurseries.
3.The care of the unsupported mother and her child.
4.The provision of family planning facilities.
5.A domiciliary midwifery service.23
6.A health visiting service.24
7.Vaccination and immunisation26
8.The provision of cervical cytology.28
9.Home help service.29

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and in addition, the Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act, 1948, provides
for the registration and supervision of private day nurseries and child-minders.
Details of these services are contained in their individual sections.
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