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REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE MATERNITY
AND CHILD WELFARE DEPARTMENT.
The work of Maternity and Child Welfare is carried on under
the provisions of the Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 1918.
The Act includes the following clauses :—
I. Arrangements for :—
(a) Ante-Natal Clinic for expectant mothers.
(b) Home visiting of expectant mothers.
(c) Maternity Hospital or beds at a Hospital in which
complicated cases of pregnancy can receive treatment.
2. Arrangements for :—
(a) Such assistance as may be needed to ensure the
mother having skilled and prompt attention during
confinement at home.
(b) The confinement of sick women, including women
having contracted pelves or suffering from any other
conditions involving danger to mother or infant at
a Hospital.
(c) The treatment in a Hospital of Post-Natal conditions
of mother or infant.
(d) Provision of systematic advice and treatment for
infants at Clinics—up to school age.
(e) Systematic home visitation of infants and children
up to five years of age.
3. Provision of nurses for infectious cases among children in
their own homes.
4. Home Helps may be provided at the Council's expense.
5. Milk and food to necessitous cases of expectant and
nursing mothers and children under five years of age.
6. Grants are available for provision of beds for children up
to five years. This includes cases which require supervision
as regards dietetics and general conditionOphthalmia
Neonatorum and epidemic Diarrhoea.
7. Provision of facilities for obtaining a Specialist's opinion
in complicated cases; before and after confinement.
The main centre is at White House, Plashet Grove, and
there are subsidiary centres in Manor Park, Greatfield, and South
Wards.