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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 Part XII of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936.
(b) Home visits to mothers and children.
(c) Infant Life Protection.
(d) Establishment of Welfare Centres.
(e) Establishment of an Artificial Sunlight Clinic.
(/) The systematic medical inspection of toddlers at stated ages.
(g) Provision of maternity outfits.
(h) Payment of compensation to midwives.
(i) Payment of midwives' fees.
(j) The services of a Consultant in cases of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia.
(k) The services of a Consultant in exceptional cases of obstetric or ante-natal
abnormality at home.
(l) Provision of Home Helps in maternity cases.
(m) Boarding-out of children while expectant or nursing mother is in hospital-
(n) An arrangement with the School Medical Treatment Committee for the
treatment of minor ailments in young children.
(o) An arrangement with the School Medical Treatment Committee for the
provision of dental treatment to young children and to expectant and
nursing mothers.
(p) An arrangement with the Woolwich Invalid Children's Aid Association for
orthopaedic treatment for children requiring such treatment.
(q) 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 and Influenzal Pneumonia.