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CHAPTER III.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
1. SERVICES PROVIDED, Notification of births — For
premature infants special equipment on loan, Paediatrician available,
supply of expressed breast milk may be available at County
Maternity Units, provision of Home Help, ambulances provided
with heating device—Health Visitor Domiciliary Service from end
of lying-in period, Borough divided into 16 Health Visitor areas—
Infant Death enquiries to obtain information regarding possibilities
of further reduction in infantile mortality—Child Life
Protection, advice to foster parents, Health Visitor's enquiries re
applications to keep foster-child, register of foster-parents and
foster-children—Adoption of Children (Regulation) Act, 1939,
responsibilities of Council limited to Section 7 and explanatory
Circular Ministry of Health No. 2790, preliminary visit re suitability
of proposed home, monthly visitation after receipt of child
—Clinic Services, Routine Clinic Sessions Infant Welfare and
Toddlers, Ante-Natal, Dental, Diphtheria Immunisation—Test
Feeding Scales loaned for investigation of sufficiency, etc., of
breast feeding—pamphlets giving general and dietary advice to
Expectant Mothers—Hospitalisation for confinement arranged as
appropriate and possible, and for puerperal pyrexia — Be home
confinements coupon equivalent certificates for necessary additional
sheets according to Ministry of Health arrangements, panel
of consultants available for abnormal ante-natal and puerperal
cases in private practice, arrangement with County Hospitals for
Specialist Obstetric Medical Officer in confinement cases,
Emergency Maternity Units (Flying Squads) for any case of grave
emergency, e.g., shock, haemorrhage or eclampsia available from
Redhill County Hospital — Examination of blood for Wassermann
reaction offered to all women attending Ante-Natal Clinics —
Special Scheme re Unmarried Mothers, arrangements with British
Red Cross Society through Middlesex County Council at PreNatal
Home, 16, The Park, Golders Green prior to confinement,
and at B.R.C.S. Hostel, Marylands, Hendon, for mothers and
babies for two or three months after confinement — Complete
Dental Scheme, extractions, conservative treatment and artificial
dentures, nitrous oxide anaesthesia available — Special foods,
nutrients, drugs, dressings, etc., at Clinics, sterile dressing
drums treated at Redhill County Hospital—Services available from
the Clinics, Sunlight and Massage treatment at Wembley Hospital,
Redhill and Central Middlesex County Hospitals, and Marlborough
Hill Clinic, Harrow, Convalescent Home treatment, domiciliary
nursing by arrangement with Wembley and Kingsbury District
Nursing Associations, sterilised Maternity Outfits, X-ray examinations
at Wembley Hospital, Redhill and Central Middlesex County
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