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Institutional provision for Unmarried Mothers,
Illegitimate Infants, etc.
No provision.
Ambulance Facilities.
These were fully set out in my report for 1930.
Health Visiting. See "Maternity and Child Welfare."
Infant Life Protection. For details, see "Maternity and Child
Welfare."
Orthopaedic Treatment. No scheme has been adopted, individual
children being referred to private doctors or to hospitals.
Municipal Foot Clinic.
With the completion of the Central Maternity and Child Welfare
Clinic and the transfer thereto of the Ante-Natal and Light Treatment
Clinics from the Health Centre, Harton Street, the vacated accommodation
at the Health Centre became available for a project long under
consideration, namely, the establishment of a Municipal Foot Clinic.
The rooms available permitted of the provision of seven cubicles, each
curtained off for privacy, four being placed in one room and three in
the other to permit of the separation of sexes. The equipment for
each cubicle consists of chair, foot-rest, trays and instruments, while,
for general use, is also provided certain apparatus such as vibrator,
nail drill, infra-red lamp, etc. Two fully-qualified chiropodists were
engaged and, at first, two sessions weekly were provided. The
response of the public to this new venture of the Borough Council was
so great that two further sessions every week were made available and,
at a later date, authority was given to hold, as and when required, a
special appointment session to meet the need of those persons who
could attend only at special hours.
The number of persons for whom treatment could not be provided
within the limits of the scheme appeared to warrant an increase in the
number of sessions, and this matter received favourable consideration
by the Public Health Committee.
I should like to express my appreciation of the help afforded me in
the setting up of this Clinic by Mr. F. R. Bride, B.Sc., Head of the
School of Chiropody, Chelsea Polytechnic.