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SECTION IX.—MATERNITY AND CHILD
WELFARE.
The Council's Maternity and Child Welfare scheme embraces
the following services:—
(а) Administration of the Notification of Births Acts,
1907-15.
(b) Home visits to mothers and young children.
(c) Establishment of Welfare Centres.
(d) Establishment of an Artificial Sunlight Clinic.
(e) An arrangement with the School Medical Treatment
Committee for the treatment of minor ailments in
young children.
(f) An arrangement with the School Medical Treatment
Committee for the provision of dental treatment to
young children and to expectant and nursing
mothers.
(g) An arrangement with the Woolwich Invalid Children's
Aid Association for orthopaedic treatment for
children requiring such treatment.
(h) Provision of nursing assistance for young children
suffering from Measles, Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
Zymotic Enteritis, Whooping Cough, Poliomyelitis,
Pneumonia and Influenzal Pneumonia, and for
mothers suffering from puerperal fever and peurperal
pyrexia.