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Midwifery assistance to 104 mothers confined in their
homes, and the provision of Home Helps in 8 cases, was provided,
in addition to in-patient hospital treatment to 188 confinement
cases at the City of London Maternity Hospital and
Mothers' Hospital, Clapton, under the Council's agreements with
these Institutions.
The scope of the agreement with the Mothers' Hospital was
extended in September of this year.
The King's Home for Nurses has been most helpful to the
work of the Public Health Department in dealing with nonnotifiable
infectious disease such as Measles and Whooping
Cough. Nursing assistance was supplied to 70 necessitous cases
under the agreement between the Association and the Council,
and 1,050 visits were paid to those cases by the Nurses.
The conditions under which milk (fresh and dried) was supplied
to necessitous mothers and infants, received careful consideration
at the close of 1920, and the arrangement hitherto in force of
granting milk through the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres
"was discontinued and the present system of direct control by the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee through the Public
Health Department was introduced. Various restrictions in the
supply of milk were imposed at different times during the year,
on the grounds of economy, by the Ministry of Health, but no
alterations were suggested in the detailed administration of the
scheme which had been put into operation by the Council, see
page 82.
During the short period that the supply of milk was suspended
in order that the approval of the Ministry could be obtained to
the system adopted by Local Authorities throughout the country,
the greatest suffering was experienced by numbers of poor families
in the district, and the deterioration noticed in children attending
the centres was specially commented upon by the medical