[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1. At least 7 DAYS before the child is received, if it is the first child received by the foster-parent. 2. At least 48 hours’ notice in the case of every additional child. This will enable the Local Authority to have the home inspected before the arrival of the child. It should be noted that pa3nnent includes the receipt of a lump sum as well as payments in money, or money’s worth, at intervals. Publication of an advertisement offering to undertake or arrange for the nursing and maintenance of any child under the age of 9 years, which does not truly state the name and address of the person or society making the offer, is made an offence. In Canterbury the Relieving Officer is the Infant Life Pro- tection Visitor, with the Health Visitor acting in certain cases. The Pre=School Child.—Each year, throughout the country, some 20 per cent, of children are found to require treatment when they enter school for the first time at 5 years of age. For this reason, the Ministry of Health have recently been paying great stress on the importance of obtaining greater medical supervision for children during the pre-school years. In Canterbury, children under school age can obtain Dental treatment at the School Dental Clinic, and early in 1932 arrange- ments were made to allow such children to obtain treatment at the Orthopaedic Clinic and also at the Minor Ailment Clinic. Children up to 5 years are visited in their homes by the Health Visitor and are encouraged to attend the Welfare Clinic, where (with the parents’ consent) immunisation against Diphtheria is undertaken. Mothers ai'e commencing to realise that the Clinics are not only for infants in arms, but that the child over one year needs very careful supervision for the prevention of permanent disability or deformity’. In addition, “ Nursery Classes ” are provided in two of the Infant vSchools for children of 3-5 years of age, who then automatically come under the supervision of the School Medical vService. Clinics and Treatment Centres. (a) Infant Welfare Clinics at the Public Health Department, 20A, Stour Street, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2.30 to 4 p.m. (b) Ante-Natal Clinics at the Welfare Centre on alternate Wednesdays at 2.30 p.m. (c) Minor Ailments Clinic at St. John’s Council School, Northgate, on Mondays to Fridays inclusive, at 9.15 a.m.