[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough.

  • Merthyr Tydfil (Wales : County). Borough Council.
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Supply of Welfare Foods : National Milk is supplied at the Food Olfice for those in attendance at Infant Welfare Centres and vouchers are given in. respect ot other brands of foods, so that they can be obtained at a cheaper rate. A Welfare Food.? Supply Depot is in operation at the Dowlais Clinic. Sterilised Maternity Outfits : These are supplied free of charge to all expectant mothers attending the Clinic. Care of Unmarried Mothers and Children : The necessity for provision, other than provision for confine- ment, has arisen in this area only in very exceptional circumstances If 3057 difficulty arises then contact is made with the Secretary of Llandaff Diocesan Moral Welfafe Association, and provision is made at the Haven, Newport Road, Cardiff, MIDWIFERY. Section 23, The approved scheme of the Council under Section 23 of the iNational Health Service Act confirmed the existing midwiferv ^rvices arrangempts and provided for certain advances, i.e\ the tiammg of midwives in Gas and Air Analgesia. Council is the local supervising authority under the Mid- tentiL f during the year 1950, they received notice of in- tention to practice midwifery from the following ; Municipal Midwives ... ... g Independent domiciliary midwives Midwives working as maternity nurses only ni] Hospital Midwives ... ... Iq 19 all m’itSrS The number of f analgesia during the women who took advantage of gas and aii year 19o0, was 87.