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to limit the number of children in a foster home has been extended,
as also the power to secure the removal of children kept on unsuitable
premises or by unsuitable persons ; unsuitable persons include those
unfit to have care of such children by reason of old age, infirmity
or ill-health, as well as ignorance, inebriety, immorality or criminal
conduct. Detrimental environment is recognised, as well as unsuitable
premises or foster parents, as a ground for action either
before or after reception. The exemptions to be granted to hospitals,
convalescent homes and institutions have been more closely
defined in the new Act. Every Maternity and Child Welfare
Authority has to provide for the administration of the Act in its
area, and whenever children are kept for reward the Authority
must appoint one or two health protection visitors who have to
satisfy themselves as to the health and well-being of the children
and give any necessary advice or direction. The wider terms
"health and well-being " have replaced the narrower ones " nursing
and maintenance " in the Act of 1908. Other provisions in the
Act relate to delinquent children, and the substitution of what is
known as residential schools for the old industrial reformatories.
ANTE-NATAL SUPERVISION.
Ante-natal Clinics—
(1) The County Nurses' Association Home, Beachcroft
Road, Leytonstone.—Thursdays, 10 a.m.
(2) Health Clinic, Leyton Green Road, Wednesdays,
10 a.m.
(3) Do. do. —Fridays, 10 a.m.