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The Maternity and Child Welfare Committee has been much
interested in the endeavour at Wembley Hospital to provide a
Maternity Unit. A proposed lay-out has now been generally
approved by the Ministry of Health of a simple brick building
for 20 beds. This scheme is of a temporary nature, the Wembley
Hospital Authority having had in mind for some time the provision
of a much larger scheme, perhaps ultimately of about 75
beds. Such accommodation would be an asset, indeed, to the
Borough's Health Services.
8. ROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND
GYNÆCOLOGISTS AND POPULATION INVESTIGATING
COMMITTEE. In common with some 400 Maternity and Child
Welfare Authorities, the Maternity Questionnaire Survey of this
Committee was completed by the Health Visitors. This is an
endeavour to obtain a sample giving an undistorted picture of
the social and economic problems of child-bearing. A comprehensive
report of this Inquiry is expected soon.
9. REPORT OF THE CARE OF CHILDREN COMMITTEE
(THE CURTIS REPORT). The children with whom the Curtis
Committee concerned itself were divided into the following
groups:—
(a) children maintained by local authorities under the Acts
and Regulations relating to the Poor Law;
(b) children found to be homeless on the winding up of the
Government Evacuation Scheme;
(c) children brought before the Courts as delinquent or in
need of care or protection and required by the Courts to
live elsewhere than in their own homes;
(d) healthy children maintained by Local Authorities under
the Public Health Act;
(e) children cared for by voluntary organisations;
(f) children in the care of private persons who are not their
parents or legal guardians whether or not with a view to
legal adoption;
(g) children who by reason of physical or mental handicaps
have to be placed for long periods in hospitals or other
residential establishments;
(h) children orphaned by the war.
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