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service of the Local Authority, and not as at present
a separate entity in the management of a Voluntary
Committee.
An Obstetrical Specialist is provided in cases of
emergency; the fee of a doctor is paid where his attendance
is requested by the midwife; three ante-natal clinics
are held monthly with a specially skilled doctor in
attendance; extra nourishment is provided where necessary;
the midwives are highly skilled and capable, and
yet the public is slow to respond to these provisions, and
the unskilled "handy woman" still permitted to give
unsound advice. I reported rather more fully on this
matter in my Report of 1931. I can only reiterate
what I then wrote.
IlI—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 mothercraft
in the homes.
2. Seven welfare centre sessions are held weekly,
with a doctor in attendance.
3. Ante-natal Clinics are held three times per
month.
4. Maternity Hospital provision for necessitous
cases.
5. Consulting Gynaecologist, whose services are
available for general obstetrics work.
6. Hospital treatment, isolation, and Consulting
Gynaecologist for Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia cases.
7. Dental treatment for expectant mother, nursing
mother, and children under five years of age.
8. Free milk for necessitous cases.
9. Home visiting of boarded-out children under
Children and Young Persons Acts, 1908-1932.