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The growth of the Heston District is making it imperative to
start a Clinic in that area, as the distance is too great for the
mothers to come down to Douglas Road, and the transport facilities
are inadequate.
Negotiations are in progress for a suitable hall in that District,
and it is hoped that the coming year will see something done in
that direction.
In addition to the Infant Welfare Centre an Ante-Natal
Clinic is held on the first and third Monday in the month at the
Council House, and the attendance is steadily growing. Consideration
at the end of the year was given to the provision of dental
treatment for mothers and children, and it is hoped that early in
the new year this will become an accomplished fact.
There are possibilities that something can be done to replace
satisfactorily the premises used for the Infant Welfare Clinic at
Isle worth. There is no possibility of any instructive work so long
as we are restricted to the present unsatisfactory premises. On
October 1st two important regulations—namely the Public Health
notification of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia regulations,
and the Public Health Ophthalmia Neonatorum regulations came
into force.
This, for the first time, made Puerperal Pyrexia, that is a rise
in temperature or slight fever in a newly confined woman—a notifiable
disease.
"The expression 'Puerperal Pyrexia' means any febrile condition
(other than a condition which is required to be notified as
Puerperal Fever under the Infectious Disease (Notification) Acts)
occurring in a woman within 21 days after childbirth or miscarriage
in which a temperature of 100.4 degrees F. (38 degrees C.) or more
has been sustained during a period of 24 hours or has recurred
during that period."