[Report 1922] / Medical Officer of Health, Berkshire County Council.

  • Berkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1922
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Credit: [Report 1922] / Medical Officer of Health, Berkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE. By the middle of 1918 arrangements were made for carrying out a scheme of Maternity and Child Welfare work in those parts of the Administrative County not already covered by independent municipal or voluntary action, and shortlv afterwards a commencement had been made throughout the greater part of the county. The arrangements sanctioned by the Berkshire County Council provided for :— 1. Home visitation of (a) Expectant mothers. (b) Infants and children under school age. 2. Hospital accommodation for lying-in. (Rescinded 181h June, 1921.) 3. Grants to Nursing Associations providing midwives or monthly nurses. 4. Payment of midwives in necessitous cases. 5. Treatment in Hospitals and Convalescent Homes of children under school age. 6. Extra nourishment for expectant and nursing mothers and children under school age, if necessitous. (Rescinded 1st April, 1921.) 7. Maternity and Infant Welfare Centres and Clinics. In areas where there are nurse-midwives working for the County Nursing Association the Health Visiting is done by these women, and their Superin- tendent reports to me each week. Whole-time Health Visitors have been appointed by the County Council for the greater portion of the remainder of the County. The Maidenhead, Newbury and New Windsor Borough schemes have each been established several years, and comprise systematic home visiting and medical consultations at a centre. In the remainder of the County there are nine Infant Welfare Centres managed by voluntary committees, at each centre a medical officer attends, usually twice a month ; the centre may be opened weekly for other welfare purposes.