Co-ordination of Health Services Liverpool : Child Welfare
1928-03 1928 1920s 6 pages JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE LIVING WAGE. CO-ORDINATION OF HEALTH SERVICES LIVERPOOL. CHILD WELFARE. Liverpool has now an almost complete co-ordinated scheme for looking after the health of children from birth to the school leaving age. There are 13 Infant Welfare centres a...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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March 1928
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| Summary: | 1928-03
1928
1920s
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JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE LIVING WAGE. CO-ORDINATION OF HEALTH SERVICES LIVERPOOL. CHILD WELFARE. Liverpool has now an almost complete co-ordinated scheme for looking after the health of children from birth to the school leaving age. There are 13 Infant Welfare centres and 8 milk depots. The City is divided into districts to each of which certain health visitors are allocated - Duties as fellows: Attendance at clinics for expectant mothers and home visiting of these cases. At ante-natal cases in the clinics, cutting out, sewing and knitting classes are held to enable and encourage mothers to make suitable provision for themselves and their expected infants. (Classes well attended by the mothers). Visiting under the Notification of Births Act. Attendance at clinics for children from birth to five years of age, visiting these children and instructing mothers in their own homes. Visits to cases and home nursing of measles, whooping cough, influenza, pneumonia and infantile diarrhoea. Re-visits to phthisis cases amongst women and children. Attendances at school medical inspections and following-up, in the home cases of physical defects and neglect found by medical inspectors. HEALTH VISITORS AND INFANT WELFARE VISITORS (NURSES INTER-CHANGEABLE). Visits to neglected and verminous school children and ensuring the cleansing of verminous children. Children inspected in schools, and re-inspected in schools. Dental inspection in school. Home visits to school children suffering from infectious skin diseases, etc. Attendance at minor ailments clinics, eye, ear, tonsils and adenoids, dental and ringworm clinics. LIVERPOOL DAY NURSERIES 8 in NUMBER, 7 of which are under the control of the Health Committee. Children from the age of 5 weeks to 5 years admitted between hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
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