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(1) Ear, nose and throat clinics of the Council.
(2) Child guidance clinics of the Council.
(3) Ophthalmic clinics of the Council.
(4) Part-time use of the Consultant to the Regional Hospital
Board's Chest Clinic In preventive tuberculosis work and
af ter-care.
(5) Anaesthetists (Regional Hospital Board) in local authority
dental clinics for expectant and nursing mothers and their
children, and for children of school age.
+(6) In orthopaedic clinics of the Council.
+(7) In orthoptic clinics of the Council,,
+ agreed but not yet in practice.
An exchange of officers is proposed between the Registrar of the local
Maternity Hospital and the Assistant Medical Officer of Health for maternity
and child welfare, but negotiations with the Regional Hospital Board are still
going on.
4. Voluntary Organisations
(1) Women's Voluntary Services who assist in sale of Ministry of Food
welfare foods and vitamin supplements, etc. Six distribution points
have beene stablished in the borough to facilitate this work, (five
of them in local authority clinics).
(2) The N.S.P.C.C. give valuable help in the care of problem families.
(3) The church organisations, especially the Chelmsford Diocesan Moral
Welfare Association.
ib) The National Baby Welfare Council.
(5) The National Association for Mental Health and Mental After-Care
Association.
(6) The National Association for Prevention of Tuberculosis.
(7) The Central Council for Health Education.
(8) The Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents.
(9) King Edward's Hospital Fund for London.
(10) The National Smoke Abatement Society.
(11) The National Society of Children's Nurseries.
(12) The National Association for Maternity and Child Welfare.
All these bodies lend valuable aid in helping the Local Health Services
to deal with individual cases or problem families.
PARTICULAR SERVICES.
5„ Care of Expectant and Nursing Mothers and children unfler school age.
Expectant and Nursing Mothers. Comprehensive facilities for ante-natal
and post-natal care is afforded in four .local authority clinics with doctors,
midwives of the domiciliary service and health visitors in attendance.
No specialist clinics have been arranged but difficult cases are referred
to local hospitals for consultation.
Blood-taking, ante-natal exercise classes, physiotherapy, breast-feeding
instruction, and modified mothercraft training are carried out.
Facilities also exist for the comprehensive dental care in the Council's
clinics, including oral hygienist's overhaul and dental X-ray.
No assistance is given in general practitioners' own premises but the
family doctors are freely invited to send their patients to any or all of
the above.
Maternity outfits are supplied at the clinics to women who are to have
domiciliary confinement.
Unmarried expectant mothers are given precisely the same care as married