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growing demand for confinements to take place in
maternity homes rather than under the inadequate facilities
usually available at the patient's house. This being so,
maternity home accommodation for the necessitous patient
in Bromley has become inadequate.
An important factor in our services in the prevention
of Maternal Mortality has been the transfer in 1930 of
supervision of midwives to the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee. This unifies control and cannot but lead
to more effective results, and prevent much overlapping
that previously occurred.
III.—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Services consist of
the following:—
1. Five Health Visitors who are employed half-time
on School Medical duties. They attend the centres
and carry out the teaching of mother craft in the
homes.
2. Six welfare centres are held weekly, with a doctor
in attendance.
3. Ante-Natal Clinics are held twice monthly.
4. Maternity Hospital provision for necessitous cases.
5. Home visiting of boarded-out children under the
Children Act, 1908—Part I.
6. Free milk for necessitous cases.
7. Orthopaedic treatment and Consulting Surgeon for
the crippled child.
8. Minor ailment treatment. Ear, nose and throat
Consultant and Surgeon.
9. Dental treatment for the expectant mother, or
nursing mother, and children under five years
of age.
10. Provision of hospital treatment for cases of
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, and for acute complicated
cases of Measles under five years of age.
11. Hospital treatment, isolation, and Consulting
Gynaecologist for Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia cases.