Child Welfare Centres Research Articles

Social Service Films in the Public Library

SOCIAL service, as a term, is new, while the modern outlook is as new as the term. It suggests a scientist at his test tubes or a statistician at his tables; a voluntary ambulance at the roadside or a nurse at the Child Welfare Centre. In its narrowest sense it is an extension and enlargement of the older charitable institutions; in its widest sense it covers practically the whole gamut of human enterprise.

Infant Protection in Mexico

IN an article on this subject in the May issue of the Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, Dr. Salvador Zubirán, Under-Secretary of Public Assistance, states that Mexico is trying to reduce its high infant mortality, which was 30.5 per 1,000 births in 1905 and 122.7 in 1939, by the establishment of child welfare centres which were opened in 1929. In 1937 they were placed under a single Government department, and child welfare became a social as well as a medical obligation of the Government, and lost its 'charity' implications. Important objectives include the integration of the home, establishment of foster homes for deserted children, adoption of orphans, pre-natal training for the mother, vocational training for her if she has to work, and aid from pregnancy until the child is six years old. A children's hospital is being opened in Mexico this year to serve as a centre for medico-social education, scientific investigation and the spread of pædiatric information.

Hygiene and Public Health in India

THE annual report of the All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta, recently issued, summarizes the teaching and research work for the year 1937. Statistical investigations on cholera have been pursued; for example, forecasts of epidemics, and research on variations in the chemical structure and antigenic properties of the cholera vibrio. An inquiry into the nature of an obscure disease, epidemic dropsy, has incriminated mustard oil (much used in cooking) as the causative agent, though what constituent of it is responsible still remains to be discovered. An account of the work of the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre is included.

Behaviour and Nervous Disorders in Children attending Maternity and Child Welfare Centres, by GRACE CALVER, M.B., CH.B., Physician, Children's Department, Tavistock Clinic

Behaviour and Nervous Disorders in Children attending Maternity and Child Welfare Centres, by GRACE CALVER, M.B., CH.B., Physician, Children's Department, Tavistock Clinic

National Baby Week Council and Physical Fitness

THE National Baby Week Council holds, and rightly so, that “physical fitness begins in the maternity and child welfare centre”, which will be its slogan for this year. The centres cater for the well-being of the expectant mother, the nursing mother, the infant and child up to five years of age. A good start towards physical fitness can, and should, be given in those centres. The Council emphasizes that physical fitness cannot be obtained by physical exercise alone, arid that nutrition, better housing and other reforms also bear a close relation to the whole problem. The Council will gladly advise representatives of organized bodies, or any individual requiring advice. Correspondence should be addressed to the Secretary, National Baby Week Council, 117 Piccadilly, London, W.I.

LONDON

<h3>Advice on Nutrition</h3> The ministry of health has issued advice to local authorities and to maternity and child welfare centers with regard to administration of iron to prevent the nutritional anemia of infants. The ministry has also given advice on other nutritional defects. A considerable amount of work has been done on the etiology of rickets and dental decay, the medical research council having published six special reports on the former and five on the latter. Severe rickets is rapidly disappearing in this country, but in some areas milder forms are still widely prevalent. The ministry points out that it has been established that, given an adequate amount of calcium and phosphorus in the diet, vitamin D will prevent and cure rickets. Both for the prevention and the cure of rickets and to insure proper development of the teeth, the diet of pregnant and nursing mothers and of young children

The Teaching of Mother-craft in Child Welfare Centres, by Miss JEAN MCKINLAY CALDER, Superintendent, Child Welfare Centre, Manchester

The Teaching of Mother-craft in Child Welfare Centres, by Miss JEAN MCKINLAY CALDER, Superintendent, Child Welfare Centre, Manchester

An Infant Welfare Service for the Middle Classes, by MARGARET EMSLIE, M.B., Ch.B., Hon. Secretary, Association of Maternity and Child Wel fare Centres : Medical Officer, Hyde Park Babies' Club

An Infant Welfare Service for the Middle Classes, by MARGARET EMSLIE, M.B., Ch.B., Hon. Secretary, Association of Maternity and Child Wel fare Centres : Medical Officer, Hyde Park Babies' Club

Maternity and Child Welfare Centres in the Aldershot Command

Maternity and Child Welfare Centres in the Aldershot Command

Child Welfare Centres and Their Adjuncts, by HELEN M. GALL, M.B., Ch.B., Medical Officer, Infant Welfare Department, Bradford

Child Welfare Centres and Their Adjuncts, by HELEN M. GALL, M.B., Ch.B., Medical Officer, Infant Welfare Department, Bradford

Child Welfare Centres and Their Adjuncts, by J. R. KAYE, M.B., D.P.H., Medical Officer of Health, West Riding, Yorks C.C. (Fellow)

Child Welfare Centres and Their Adjuncts, by J. R. KAYE, M.B., D.P.H., Medical Officer of Health, West Riding, Yorks C.C. (Fellow)

The Comparative Value of Home Visiting and of Attendance at Maternity and Child Welfare Centres, by A. SAYLF, formerly Health Visitor to the Westminster City Council, and Housing Sub-Inspector in the Ministry of Health. Honorary Secretary to the Women Sanitary Inspectors' and Health Visitors' Association

The Comparative Value of Home Visiting and of Attendance at Maternity and Child Welfare Centres, by A. SAYLF, formerly Health Visitor to the Westminster City Council, and Housing Sub-Inspector in the Ministry of Health. Honorary Secretary to the Women Sanitary Inspectors' and Health Visitors' Association

Maternity and child welfare centres

Maternity and child welfare centres

A Child Welfare Centre

A Child Welfare Centre

NEED OF STANDARDS OF TRAINING

Every one whose practice has anything to do with children realizes that the time is ripe for the development of a program for the study of the problems of defective speech, for about 5 per cent, of all children have some form of speech disorder. Institutions, boards of education and child welfare centers everywhere are asking for physicians to enlighten them on the prevention and correction of speech disorders. Disorders of speech are increasing, partly because of the great revival of interest in education since the World War, as our system of public school training favors the production of more crowding, more psychoneuroses and more defects of all kinds, including speech disorders. Many foreigners in the larger cities who are learning to speak English at school are forced to speak their native language at home; this conflict often produces some form of speech defect. The World War has been followed

Triple Ideal for Child Welfare Centres and a Note on the Infant History of Rickety School Entrants

Triple Ideal for Child Welfare Centres and a Note on the Infant History of Rickety School Entrants