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Voluntary Workers at Clinics.
Ever since the initiation of Maternity and Child Welfare
Clinics in Leyton, the responsible Maternity and Child Welfare
authority has been fortunate in having available the services of a
number of Voluntary Workers who have attended regularly and
rendered valuable assistance at the Child Welfare Clinics.
I should like to commend for special mention and appreciation
Miss H. S. and Miss E. H. Holl, who have been acting as Voluntary
Workers without a break since 1926. During the war years, in
addition to their work at the Council's Welfare Centres during the
day, they assisted in the health work connected with the Tunnel
Shelters during the night. For a period of over twenty years
their regular and unfailing attendance at Clinics, their very practical
help and their pleasing personalities have won for them the admiration
and respect of the permanent staff with whom they have
worked and of the mothers and young children whom they have
served.
In these days the quiet day-to-day voluntary service of publicspirited
persons of goodwill should be encouraged; and I suggest
that some public recognition should be given to public service of
this kind.
Unfortunately Miss H. S. Holl has been incapacitated and
confined to her home due to illness for the past two years, but her
sister is still a regular voluntary helper at the Child Welfare Clinics.
At the end of the year the Health Committee had decided that,
subject to the concurrence of the respective Councils, an appreciation,
bearing the Common Seals of the Essex County Council
and the Leyton Borough Council, be presented to the Misses E. H.
and H. S. Holl respectively for their long and willing service at
the Park House Health Clinic, both while administered by the
District Council and subsequently by the County Council.
Post-Natal Clinic.
Under the provisions of the National Health Service Act,
1946, arrangements are made for the post-natal examination of
all women who have been confined six weeks previously. Women
who have been confined in hospital have the post-natal examination
in the hospital; those who have booked a general medical practitioner
have the examination at home; only women who have
had a midwife have to attend local health authority post-natal
clinics.