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at home being advised in cases of serious illness. Medical
supervision up to approaching confinement leads to the early
detection of unfavourable symptoms or abnormal conditions
likely to prove harmful to the mother or child, and enables
steps to be taken to ensure, as far as possible, that proper
remedies are applied.
The Council are making arrangements for the provision
of hospital beds for special cases.
The ante-natal work of the Clinic to be effective must
be co-related with that of practising midwives, who should
look upon the ante-natal clinic as a centre to which they
can refer their patients for advice either for genera! ill
health or the ailments of pregnancy
If a satisfactory relationship exists between midwives
and the ante-natal clinic, the question of the notification of
pregnancy, which has been discussed in certain quarters,
need not arise.
The post-natal work of the clin'c is chiefly the medical
supervision of mothers and children up to the age of five
years. Advice is given to the mother and errors of diet and
the treatment to be adopted explained. The importance of
breast feeding is pointed out, and any condition of the
mother likely to prove detrimental to the child indicated with
a view to appropriate remedial measures being applied.
Unsatisfactory cases of illness or neglect are revisited by the
Health Visitors. Demonstrations in the art of infant feeding
are also given by the Health Visitors at the homes.
Voluntary Agencies.
Two Voluntary Baby Centres have recently been established,
one at 84, Princess Road, Kilburn, N.W., and the
other at the People's Hall, Goodson Road, Willesden, N.W.
The Kilburn Voluntary Centre is mainly for the children of
soldiers and sailors, and in connection therewith a Club has