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III.—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The Maternity and Child Welfare services consist of
the following:—
1. Five full-time and one part-time Health Visitors,
who are employed half-time on school medical
duties. They attend the centres and carry out
the teaching of mothercraf't in the homes.
2. Seven welfare centre sessions are held weekly,
with a doctor in attendance. In addition a
fortnightly welfare session is held at Hayes.
3. Ante-natal Clinics are held three times per
month.
4. Maternity Hospital provision for necessitous
cases—reservation of four beds.
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 mothers, nursing
mothers, 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.
10. Orthopaedic treatment, and Consulting Surgeon
for the crippled child.
11. Minor ailment treatment.
12. Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant and Surgeon.
Operative treatment at the School Clinic.
13. Ophthalmologist for defective vision.
14. Provision of hospital treatment for cases of
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, and for acute complicated
cases of Measles.
(Note: The above particulars of Services have been
revised so as to include such extension of services as
became operative at the commencement of the
financial year 1934-1935).