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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 14
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 18
Orthopaedic Treatment 18
Supply of Insulin 18
Vaccination 18
Adoptive Acts, By-laws and Regulations in Force in the District 20
School Medical Service (L.C.C.) 20
Survey of Health Services 23
II.—HEALTH PROPAGANDA.
General Reference 24
Health Services Booklet 24
Health Week 24
Silver Jubilee Celebrations 24
School Children 25
Informal Talks 25
Films 25
Cookery Classes 25
Central Council for Health Education 26
"Better Health" 26
Posters 26
III.—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Staff 28
Notification of Births Acts 28
The Work of the Health Visitors 28
Infant Life Protection 29
The Work of the Welfare Centres 31
Artificial Sunlight Clinic 34
Toddlers' Clinic 35
Provision of Maternity Outfits 41
Compensation to Midwives 41
Payment of Midwives' Fees 41
Public Health (Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926 42
obstetric Complications in Private Practice 42
Home Helps 42
Treatment of Minor Ailments 42
Dental Treatment 43
Orthopaedic Treatment for Children under Five Years of Age 43
Provision of Nursing Assistance 44
Day Ambulance 44
Children's Beds 45
Institutional Midwifery 45
Ante-natal Treatment and Emergencies 46