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SECTION B (II).—MATERNITY AND CHILD
WELFARE.
The Maternity and Child Welfare services comprise
the following;—
(1) Maternity and Child Welfare.
(a) Six full-time Health Visitors are employed on
School Medical Service duties and Maternity and
Child Welfare Service duties; tlieir time being
equally divided between the two services. They
attend the centres and carry out the teaching of
mothercraft in the homes.
(b) Nine welfare sessions are held weekly, with a
doctor in attendance.
(c) Free milk for necessitous cases.
(d) Home visiting of boarded-out children under the
Public Health Act, 1930, Child Life Protection.
(2) Municipal Midwifery Service.
(a) Four midwives are employed full-time to attend
confinements in the home, with or without a
doctor.
(b) Home helps are provided during the lying-in
period.
(c) Domiciliary attendance by doctors for ante-natal
and post-natal supervision.
(d) Ante-natal Clinics are held four times monthly
with doctor, midwife and health visitor in
attendance.
(e) Consultant Gynaecologist holds an Ante-Natal
Clinic bi-monthly, and is available for emergency
general obstetric work.
(f) Dental treatment for expectant and nursing
mothers.
(g) Maternity Hospital provision for necessitous cases.
(h) Consultant Pathologist whose services became
available in 1936.
(i) Hospital treatment, isolation and Consultant
Gynaecologist for Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia.
(3) Midwives Acts, 1902-1930, Administration of.