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APPENDIX.
REPORT OF THE MATERNITY AND CHILD
WELFARE COMMITTEE.
Submitted to the Council, January, 1919.
We beg to report that we have had under consideration
the provisions of the Maternity and Child Welfare
Act, 1918, the circulars of the Local Government Board
on Maternity and Child Welfare and two comprehensive
reports from the Medical Officer of Health dealing with
the matter, and submit for the information of the
Council a summary of the maternity and child welfare
work now carried on in the borough and recommendations
for its extension and co-ordination.
The subject is dealt with under the following heads:—
(1) The powers given to the Local Authority
by the Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 19.8,
and the suggestions of the Local Government
Board with regard to the provision of suitable
schemes.
(2) The maternal and infant welfare work now
carried on in the borough:—
(a) By the Borough Council.
(b) By Voluntary Agencies.
(3) The additional services that should, in our
opinion, be undertaken by the Council, the financial
assistance to be given to voluntary agencies and
the methods of co-ordinating their work with that
of the Council.
(4) An estimate of the cost of the complete
scheme.
(1) The scope and objects of the Act are shown by
the enumeration of the services in respect of which the