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SECTION IX.
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) The systematic medical inspection of toddlers at stated ages.
(f) Establishment of an Artificial Sunlight Clinic.
(g) Establishment of an Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic.
(h) Provision of maternity outfits.
(i) Payment of compensation to mid wives.
(j) Payment of midwives' fees.
(k) The services of a Consultant in cases of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia.
(l) The services of a Consultant in exceptional cases of obstetric or antenatal
abnormality at home.
(m) Provision of Home Helps in maternity cases.
(n) Boarding-out of children while expectant or nursing mother is in hospital,
(o) Payment of expenses of mothers breast-feeding their babies in hospital.
(p) An arrangement with the School Medical Treatment Committee for the
treatment of minor ailments in young children.
(q) An arrangement with the School Medical Treatment Committee for the
provision of dental treatment to young children and to expectant and
nursing mothers.
(r) An arrangement with the Woolwich Invalid Children's Aid Association
for orthopaedic treatment for children requiring such treatment,
(s) 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.
(t) 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.
(u) 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.
(v) Reservation of beds, for ante-natal treatment and emergencies of midwifery,
at the War Memorial Hospital, equivalent to 18 weeks' treatment
per annum.