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1. Six full-time Health Visitors are employed half-
time on School Medical duties and the other
half is devoted to Maternity and Child Welfare
duties. They attend the centres and carry out
the teaching of mothercraft in the homes.
2. Eight welfare sessions are held weekly, with a
doctor in attendance at six of these each week.
3. Ante-Natal clinics are held four times per month.
4. Maternity Hospital provision for necessitous cases
—reservation of four beds.
5. Consultant Gynaecologist, whose services are
available for general obstetric work.
6. Consultant Pathologist, whose services became
available during the year 1936.
7. Hospital treatment, isolation, and Consultant
Gynæcologist for Puerperal Fever and
Pyrexia cases.
8. Dental treatment for expectant mothers, nursing
mothers, and children under five years of age.
9. Free milk for necessitous cases.
10. Home visiting of boarded-out children under the
Children and Young Persons Acts, 1908-1932.
11. Consultant Surgeon and Orthopedic treatment
for the crippled child.
12. Minor ailment treatment.
13. Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant and Surgeon.
Operative treatment at the School Clinic.
14. Opthalmologist for defective vision cases.
15. Provision of hospital treatment for cases of
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, and for acute cases oi
complicated measles.
16. Supervision of midwives under the Midwives
Acts.
17. Registration and inspection of maternity homes
under the Nursing Homes Registration Act.
1927.