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47 visits have been paid to expectant mothers during the year.
Cases of still-birth, cases of premature births, and of deaths,
of young infants are enquired into by the Health Visitors.
The work of the Health Visitors has been still further increased
by the Milk (Mothers and Children) Order, 1918, and the
Milk (Mothers and Children) Order, December 22nd, 1919.
The enquiries into the circumstances of expectant and nursing
mothers who are so necessitous as to require milk at a reduced
rate, or free, have in all cases been carried out by the Health
Visitors. The present high price of milk has brought many
applicants, and a large number of visits of enquiry have been
made, as I shall show in my next Annual Report.
INFANT WELFARE CENTRES.
This work in Ilford dates from April 2nd, 1914, when a small
Voluntary Committee of interested ladies commenced a School for
Mothers at the Friends' Meeting House, Albert Road. In April,
1916, a second centre was opened by the same committee at
Barkingside. On April 16th, 1917, another Voluntary Committee
opened a centre at Seven Kings; while on September 4th, 1917, a
fourth centre was opened at Newbury Park.
The above Centres were taken over by the Council in April,
1917, a Maternity and Child Welfare Sub-Committee having been
appointed in February, 1917.
In September, 1918, a Statutory Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee, consisting of eight Councillors and four co-opted
members, was appointed by the Council.
During the past year a new Centre was opened in June at
the Cecil Hall, and the attendances show that it is much appreciated
by the mothers of the district.