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MEMORANDUM.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
A complete scheme would comprise the following elements
each of which will, in this connection, be organised in its direct
bearing on infantile health.
1. Arrangements for the local supervision of Midwives.
2. Arrangements for:—
ANTE-NATAL.
(1) An ante-natal Clinic for expectant Mothers.
(2) The home visiting of expectant Mothers.
(3) A Maternity Hospital or beds at a hospital, in which
complication cases of pregnancy can receive treatment.
3. Arrangements for:—
NATAL.
(1) Such assistance as may be needed to ensure the
Mother having skilled and prompt attendance during
confinement at home.
(2) The confinement of sick women, including women
having contracted pelvis or suffering from any other
condition involving danger to the mother or infant,
at a hospital.
4. Arrangements for:—
POST-NATAL.
(1) The treatment in a hospital of complications arising
afterparturition, whether in theMother orin the infant.
(2) The provision of systematic advice and treatment
for infants at a Baby Clinic or Infant Dispensary.
(3) The continuance of these Clinics and Dispensaries,
so as to be available for children up to the age when
they are entered on a school register, i.e., the register
of a Public Elementary School, Nursery School,
Creche, Day Nursery, School for Mothers or other
school.
(4) The systematic home visitation of infants and of
children not on a school register as above defined.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD,
Whitehall, S.W.
July, 1914.