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maternal life and health, and they have in contemplation means for
coping with still-births and early infant deaths.
During the year the open-air shelter, provided by the Carnegie
Trust, was officially opened at the creche by the late Viscountess
Helmsley, and has met a much-felt need.
Because of the continued unemployment of many breadwinners, the
supply of milk to pregnant women and nursing women and children of
pre-school age has been much appreciated.
The Mothers' Social Club gives to the mothers a very live interest
in the work of the centres. With a little outside aid, they purchased
pianos for Bruce Grove and St. Ann's Centres, where they enjoy their own
entertainments. That the mothers themselves have asked for vocal
training with a view to glee-party singing, suggests a line of education
worthy of encouragement.
Your Committee have several projects before them for the consolidation
and expansion of their work.
The enthusiasm and encouragement with which your Committee
inspire their officers and staff is a true reflex of the value they put upon
the task they have undertaken; and the success attending the efforts of
all is the measure of the response to that stimulus.
I am,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Yours faithfully,
Medical Officer of Health.