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ADMINISTRATION OF PART I. OF THE CHILDREN ACT, 1908, AS AMENDED
BY PART V. OF THE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT, 1932.
The work of Infant Life Protection has continued to increase and at the end of the year
there were 62 foster-mothers on the Register who were undertaking the care of 90 foster-children,
as compared with 51 foster-mothers and 68 foster-children at the end of the previous year.
A further Health Visitor was appointed as Infant Protection Visitor during the year.
There are now 9 such Visitors compared with 8 in the previous year.
One death occurred during 1935 and this was due to Broncho-Pneumonia. Two doctors
were in attendance at the time of the child's death and no Inquest was held.
It was not necessary to take Proceedings during the year under either of the Acts.
Particulars of the Law relating to this work are made known by notices in the local press
from time to time, and information is also supplied at the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres,
and the Public Health Department. All the Health Visitors are fully acquainted with the requirements
of the Law, and they promptly investigate and report on such cases as come to their
knowledge by verbal reports. By the decision of the Housing and Town Planning Committee
foster-children are not allowed to be received by tenants of Council houses.
When a foster-child removes to an address outside the area, full details are sent immediately
to the appropriate Authority; and any foster-child arriving in this area, whether it is reported to
have come to its parents or not, is visited to see that all is satisfactory.
A list is kept of approved persons who wish to undertake the nursing and maintenance of a
foster-child. No person is placed in this list until full details of her circumstances, etc., have been
supplied, and the Health Visitor has found the condition of the home satisfactory.
Every six months a full report on the work is submitted to the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee containing a list of all the foster-mothers and child in the area, details of any exceptional
matters, and a statement as to any disciplinary action it has been necessary to take since the
last report.
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