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SECTION VIII.—MATERNITY AND CHILD
WELFARE.
The Council's Maternity and Child Welfare scheme embraces
the following services:—
(a) Administration of the Notification of Births Acts,
1907-15.
(b) Home visits to mothers and young children.
(c) Establishment of Welfare Centres.
(d) An arrangement with the School Treatment Committee
for the treatment of minor ailments in young
children.
(e) An arrangement with the School Medical Treatment
Committee for the provision of dental treatment to
young children and to expectant and nursing mothers.
(f) An arrangement with the Woolwich Invalid Children's
Aid Association for orthopaedic treatment for children
requiring such treatment.
(g) Provision of nursing assistance for young children
suffering from measles and ophthalmia neonatorum.
(h) The provision of a Home for Ailing Babies.
(i) An arrangement with the British Hospital for the
provision of beds for the institutional treatment of
midwifery.
(j) A grant to the Woolwich and Plumstead Maternity
Home for Unmarried Mothers.
(k) Arrangements for the supply and distribution to
young children and nursing mothers, of milk and
food-drugs at cost price or free where there is inability
to pay.
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