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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Public Health and Housing Committee 2
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee 2
Preface 6
I.—GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
Public Health Officers 10
Laboratory Facilities 13
Ambulance Facilities 13
Professional Nursing in the Home 14
Clinics and Treatment Centres 15
Hospitals 16
Midwifery and Maternity Services 17
Institutional Provision for Mothers and Children 17
Health Visiting 17
Infant Life Protection 17
Orthopaedic Treatment 17
Supply of Insulin 18
Vaccination 18
Adoptive Acts, By-laws and Regulations in Force in the District 21
II.—HEALTH PROPAGANDA.
General Reference 25
Health Week 25
School Children 26
Informal Talks 27
Central Council for Health Education 27
"Better Health" 27
Posters 27
Cookery Classes 28
Bed-bug Demonstration Stall 28
Health Services Booklet 29
III.—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
General Reference 30
Staff 31
Notification of Births Acts 32
The Work of the Health Visitors 32
Infant Life Protection 33
The Work of the Welfare Centres 34
Feeding of Infants 36
Artificial Sunlight Clinic 38
Toddlers' Clinic 39
Provision of Maternity Outfits 43
Compensation of Midwives 43
Public Health (Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926 43
Obstetric Complications in Private Practice 43
Home Helps 43
Treatment of Minor Ailments 43
Dental Treatment 44
Orthopaedic Treatment for Children under Five Years of Age 45
Provision of Nursing Assistance 46
Day Ambulance 46
Children's Beds 46
Institutional Midwifery 46
Ante-Natal Treatment and Emergencies 47
Convalescent Home Treatment for Children 47
onvalescent Home Treatment for Mothers 47
Assisted Milk Scheme 48
Blind Persons Act, 1920 49
Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1925 49