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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 children.
(c) Establishment of Welfare Centres.
(d) Establishment of an Artificial Sunlight Clinic.
(e) The systematic medical inspection of toddlers.
(f) Provision of Heme Helps in maternity cases.
(g) An arrangement with the School Medical Treatment Committee for the
treatment of minor ailments in young children.
(h) An arrangement with the School Medical Treatment Committee for the
provision of dental treatment to young children and to expectant and
nursing mothers.
(i) An arrangement with the Woolwich Invalid Children's Aid Association
for orthopaedic treatment for children requiring such treatment.
(j) 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 Puerperal Pyrexia.
(k) Reservation of twelve beds for children under 5 years of age who are
suffering from such conditions as are usually treated in a general hospital,
at the War Memorial Hospital.
(l) Provision of beds for the institutional treatment of midwifery for 144
cases per annum at the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, and for
66 cases at the War Memorial Hospital.
(m) Reservation of beds, for ante-natal treatment and emergencies of midwifery,
at the War Memorial Hospital, equivalent to 18 weeks' treatment
per annum.
(n) An arrangement with the Woolwich Invalid Children's Aid Association
for the convalescent treatment of children requiring such treatment.
(o) Arrangements for the supply and distribution to young children and
nursing mothers, of milk and food-drugs at cost price, half cost or free,
according to economic circumstances.
(p) Collective instruction to expectant and nursing mothers.
(q) The appointment of a specialist medical practitioner for consultation
with general medical practitioners under the Council's scheme for the
control of Puerperal Fever.