[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough.

  • Bournemouth (England). County Borough Council. nb2004301338.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    difference between life and death or between illness and good health in the infant, for although mother- love may be instinctive, mother craft is acquired. Following the adoption of the Notification of Births Act, the Bournemouth Health Authority have come into closer co-operation with the Bourne- mouth Health and Mothers’ Aid Association. The work of the Health Department will be linked up with that of the four Mothers’ Clubs carried on by the Association, and it is hoped that a sufficient number of voluntary workers will be obtained to supplement the work of the Health Visitor. It is probable that the infant care work throughout the country will be developed consider- ably in the near future, and the present organisa- tion of the work in Bournemouth should form a basis on which development should be both natural and efficient. At a time when voluntary efforts and voluntarily supported institutions such as Sana- toria and Hospital departments are becoming more and more nationalised or municipalised, it appears to me to be most desirable that the voluntary work of the Bournemouth Health and Mothers’ Aid Association should not be replaced by municipal effort, but should be aided by and co-ordinated with it. Such voluntary work of this nature brings the leisured classes into touch with the life of the poorer people, and the greater understanding there is of that life, the better will it be for the nation both in its present health and in that of future generations. $