[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council.
- Monmouthshire County Council
- Date:
- 1950
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Speech Therapy. Tlie sei'\'ices of Speech Therapists are available to the Council, dealiu^f with speech impediments. Children who have been operated upon for the repairs of cleft palate and hare-lip are a special class of patients receiving treatment, but other speech defects are also dealt with. Care of Illegitmate Children. A Female Welfare Officer has charge of this work, the object being to co-operate with and reinforce the work of existing voluntary moral welfare associations. This Officer’s time was divided between this work and Infant Protection Visits under the supervision of the Children’s Officer. Her duties are to visit girls and women who are known to be expecting illegitimate children and to advise them in respect of the problems with which they are likely to be confronted. During the year 83 cases were dealt with; a total of 778 visits being paid. 7 girls were admitted to Northlands, Cardiff, and 3 to Mount Hope, Bristol, both these Homes being Salvation Army Homes, at the County Council’s expense. Of the 83 cases, 5 girls were later married to the putative fathers, 3 were living with the men, 11 were married women and 64 were single. 20 children were placed in homes with a view to adoption; 2 girls were placed in employment; 2 girls were accompanied to a Solicitor’s Office and were successful in obtaining affiliation orders; 2 children were boarded out. The Welfare Officer attended a post-graduate course at Southampton Uni- versity and also gave instruction to a Social Science student for one term’s ]iactical work. \ Infant Protection. There is a separate Children’s Department of the County Council, set up under the provisions of the Children’s Act, 1948, to which has been trans- ferred the care of deprived children. This was formerly under the manage- ment of the Health Department. The County Medical Officer of Health, however, acts as Medical Adviser to the Children’s Committee and under- takes the management of medical matters relating thereto.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28861693_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
