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Clinics, and also for gifts of prams, toys, clothing, etc., which are given to the other mothers:—
Mrs. Gould, Mrs. Darg, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Matthews, Mrs. Sheppard, Mrs. Whitmarsh,
Mrs. Cleave, Mrs. Wagner, Mrs. Buckingham, Mrs. Burgess, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jacklin, Mrs.
Wicks, Mrs. Northcote, Mrs. Bartholomew, Mrs. Hunt, Mrs. Geoff, Mrs. Nicholson and Mrs.
Silburn at the Hounslow (No. 1) Centre; Mrs. Hursey, Mrs. Leatherbarrow, Mrs. Trueman,
Mrs. Fitch, Mrs, Huxley, Mrs. Short and Mrs. Zimmerman at the Hounslow (No. 2) Centre;
Mrs. Gorringe, Mrs. Widdowson, Mrs. Short, Mrs. Whitten, Mrs. Conway, Mrs. Huntingford,
Mrs. Curtis, Mrs. Chance, Mrs. Ralph, Mrs. Roche, Mrs. White, Mrs. Pitt, Mrs. Nardell, Mrs.
Mattock, Mrs. Bates Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Hilditch, Mrs. Head, Mrs, Pratt, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Vye,
Mrs. Warden, Mrs. Newing, Mrs. King, Mrs. Jardine, Mrs. Duncan, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Bennett,
Mrs. England, Mrs. Higson, Mrs. Price, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Thomas, Miss Quirke, Miss Macfarlane,
Miss Barratt, Miss Collins, Mrs. Denham, Mrs. Bacon, Mrs. Griffin, Mrs. Ebbutt,
Mrs. Newman, Mrs. Chadwick, at the Isleworth Health Centre; Mrs. Rose, Mrs. Male, Mrs.
Colebrook and Mrs. Brierley at the Heston Centre. Also one helper from the Heston Branch of
the British Red Cross attends each Friday morning at the Heston Centre.

(The above numbers include 768 visits in connection with infant life protection).
Health Visitors' attendances at the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Ante-Natal
Clinics, etc., 1051.
Health Visitors' attendances at Diphtheria Immunisation Clinics, etc., 185.
Home Help for Mothers.—Persons entitled to the assistance of a Home Help are those
whose income is less than 8/- per head per week after the rent has been deducted, but in very
exceptional circumstances, at the discretion of the Medical Officer of Healthy this may be extended
up to 10/- per head. No charge is made to the applicant for the services of the Home
Help.
Usually the Home Help attends at a case for two weeks after the birth of the infant, but
in some cases, i.e., where the husband is unemployed, etc., a Home Help is sent in for half days
only. This enables the husband who can help in the home, to sign on at the Employment
Exchange and also look for employment. The rate of payment of the Home Help is £2 per week.
The number of cases at which the Home Helps have been called upon to attend during the
year, was 43.
The home helps paid 590 visits (days) to assist in the homes of mothers. The demand
for home helps has increased and I think increasing provision will have to be made for this side
of the work by reason of the midwifery service, which includes maternity nursing, steadily doing
away with the handywoman who formerly acted as maternity nurse and home help. The demand
for home helps from this cause is certain to extend. It is also necessary at times to put in home
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