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APPENDIX C.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Notes by Medical Officer.
The Council at its meeting on 27th May, 1915, passed
the following resolution:—
“That it be an instruction to the Public Health Committee
to prepare forthwith a scheme for the establishment
of Maternity Centres and Baby Clinics."
On the 1st April, 1915, the medical inspection of an
additional group of school children, namely, children aged
between eight and nine years, was undertaken.
Having regard to the importance of Maternity and
Child Welfare work and to the dearth of qualified medical
men and nurses, 1 think it would be desirable at the present
time to suspend the medical inspection of this group of
school children. If this procedure is adopted all the other
medical services of the Council can be maintained in the
same state of efficiency as before the 1st April, 1915. Under
these circumstances, at an estimated capital cost of £200
each for furniture, equipment, and alterations (half of which
would be repayable by the Local Government Board), the
Council would be enabled to open two local centres for
Maternity and Child Welfare. One of these centres would
be situated in the Kilburn area and another in the Church
End-Roundwood area. These centres would be available
daily except Saturday and Sundays as Maternity Centres
and Baby Clinics for the expectant and nursing mother and
for babies under one year of age.
The estimated additional annual cost, half of which
would be repayable by the Local Government Board in
respect of the maintenance of these two centres, would be
as follows:—