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EXISTINC MATERNITY .& CHILD WELFARE SERVICES.
1. Staff.
(a) Assistant Medical Officers.
2 Full-time
2 Part-time at Muncipal Clinics.
6 part-time at Voluntary Clinics.
(b) Dental Surgeons.
1 full-time at Municipal Clinics.
1 part-time at Voluntary Clinics (Plaistow Maternity
Hospital).
(c) Nursing Staff.
18 Health Visitors—Municipal.
1 Dental Nurse—Municipal.
34 Nurses from Plaistow Maternity Hospital (who undertake
home visiting of certain cases by arrangement with
the Medical Officer of Health).
4 Nurses allocated to voluntary clinics (who visit only
special cases attending their own Clinics by request of
Clinic Medical Officer).
2. Clinics.
5 Municipal Clinics, at each of which there is one antenatal
session per week.
7 Voluntary Clinics, at 4 of which ante-natal work is done,
viz.:—
At three clinics attached to Plaistow Maternity Hospital.
At Lees Hall Clinic, Barking Road.
Remarks :
There is close co-operation at all Clinics between the
Medical Officers, Health Visitors and District Midwives whose
patients attend for ante-natal supervision.
The Clinics are "fed" by midwives, by Health Visitors,
by District Medical Officers and bv Relieving Officers, all of
whom come into daily contact with cases requiring help from
the Clinics.
In regard to the work at the five Municipal Clinics, each
patient is seen on every visit by the Medical Officer; through
the Clinic she is referred, when necessary, for Dental Treatment,
and is also put in touch with other facilities provided for
her benefit by the Council, viz., Home Help Scheme, Provision
of Dried Milk.
Complete routine home visiting of expectant mothers is
undertaken by the Health Visitors; by no means the least
important visits being those paid to women who fail to attend
for re-examination at the Clinics according to appointment.
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