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Home Helps.
(i) Is a Home Help Scheme in operation?—Yes.
(ii) How many Home Helps are employed?
(a) whole-time—1.
(b) part-time—1 at end of year.
(iii) In how many cases were Home Helps provided under the
above arrangements during the year?—54.
Administration of Analgesics.
(a) Number of midwives in practice in the area qualified to
administer analgesics in accordance with the requirements
of the Central Midwives Board:—
(i) in institutions—1
(ii) domiciliary—Nil
Total—1.
(b) Are facilities provided to enable midwives practising in the
area to attend courses of instruction in the administration of
analgesics in institutions approved by the Central Midwives
Board for the purpose?
Nat possible to arrange courses at present.
(c) Is apparatus for the administration of analgesics supplied to
domiciliary midwives by the Council?
See reply to (b) above.
(d) In how many cases were analgesics administered by midwives
in domiciliary practice during the year?—Nil.
Dr. MacLaren submits the following observations:—
During the year 1944 the general physical condition of the
children under 5 years of age has been good, and on the whole the