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Provision of Maternity Nurses.
The Board's grant is available in aid of arrangements
approved by the Board for providing the services of a properly
qualified Maternity Nurse where the assistance is
needed and where the woman cannot afford to pay for it.
Centres and Medical Attendance at Centres.
These should provide medical supervision, advice and
treatment for expectant and nursing mothers and for infants
and children under five years of age as may be required.
Cost.
All the foregoing provisions are of the highest importance
in connection with the general schemes adopted or in
process of formation for the care of young life at the present
time, and I am of opinion that effective action could be
taken under the foregoing headings in Willesden during
next financial year at an estimated additional cost of £1,600,
half of which would be repayable by the Local Government
Board.
Committees.
The establishment of a Committee in connection with
this work is suggested by the Local Government Board
Circular, and its possible composition indicated.
At the present time there are under the Willesden
District Council a Health Committee, and under the Education
Committee, a Children's Care Committee dealing with
the main problems of child life, and other Committees under
the Council, Education Committee and other bodies dealing
with problems co-relative thereto.
Before considering the formation of a further principal
Committee, it seems to me desirable to consider the question
of consolidating existing Committees as far as may be possible
; and I would urge upon this Committee and the Council
the exceeding importance at the present time of consolidating