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(l) Collective instruction to expectant and nursing
mothers.
(m) The supply of medical and health visitor's assistance
to the one voluntary centre in the Borough.
(n) Research work on the health of young children of
pre-school age at the request of the Ministry of
Health.
For these purposes the Council maintain a staff of one
whole time and one part time medical officer, six whole time
and two part time health visitors, two clerks, and one part
time dentist and one part time anaesthetist for the dental
clinics. The last two are appointed by the School Treatment
Committee.
The Council rent, or own, six welfare centres and one Home
for Ailing Babies, details of which are set out on pages 151—157
while the names and qualifications of the staff are given in
Section III.
At each of the Centres voluntary helpers assist in the work
weighing babies, recording weights, giving out clinic cards,
etc. These ladies generally attend one session each per week,
and their regularity and assistance are much appreciated.
No one absents herself without some very good reason.
Several of these ladies have been doing this work continuously
during the last five years.
During the quinquennium under review the Council's
maternity and child welfare scheme has been amplified in the
following respects:—
The medical staff of the Council has been reorganised so that,
without an increase in the number of officers, the half time
services of one of them is available for maternity and child
welfare purposes, so that the number of medical officers for