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SECTION III.—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 children.
(c) Infant Life Protection.
(d) Establishment of Welfare Centres.
(e) Establishment of an Artificial Sunlight Clinic.
(f) The systematic medical inspection of toddlers.
(g) Provision of maternity outfits.
(h) Payment of compensation to midwives.
(i) The services of a Consultant in cases of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia.
(j) The services of a Consultant in exceptional cases of obstetric or ante-natal
abnormality at home.
(k) Provision of Home Helps in maternity cases.
(l) An arrangement with the School Medical Treatment Committee for the treatment
of minor ailments in young children.
(m) An arrangement with the School Medical Treatment Committee for the
provision of dental treatment to young children and to expectant and
nursing mothers.
(n) An arrangement with the Woolwich Invalid Children's Aid Association for
orthopaedic treatment for children requiring such treatment.
(o) 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, Puerperal Pyrexia, Pneumonia arid Influenzal
Pneumonia.
(p) Day Ambulance service for maternity cases.
(q) 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.