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Infant Life
Protection.
It is still extremely difficult to find in this Borough a sufficient number of
really suitable women with satisfactory home conditions who are willing to
act as foster-mothers.
Most of the nurse children already under supervision have maintained a
very fair standard of health and well being in spite of the fact that some are
not housed in really ideal homes.
In some cases the parents do not keep up regular payments and there
are cases where the payments have stopped altogether. Without exception
no foster-mother during this past year has given up her charge on that account.
Periodical visits are continued in every case and the children have not lacked
proper care and attention from the foster mother.
It has not been found possible to bring into practice any scheme whereby
assistance could be given towards the payment of foster mothers' fees owing
to the many pitfalls and difficulties associated.