Mr Cuthbert Alport: ...individual problem which the child represents. This new pattern of child emigration which is now developing has one important aspect. This aspect certainly fits in very closely with our ideas of child welfare here. It is represented by the development of the Fairbridge Family Scheme to which my hon. Friend the Member for Surbiton made reference, which was introduced with the approval of...
Dr Horace King: Fifty years ago, Sir John Gorst, one of Britain's most notable advocates of child welfare, inspired the infant Labour Party with its first two Acts of Parliament—school medical inspection and the feeding of poor children. In 1906, in a book called "Children of the Nation", he showed that the death rate among mothers was nearly five per thousand and among infant children 150 per...
...funds have been allocated by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund to the Government of Uganda to date; and what proportion of these funds have been allocated to the Government Child Welfare Unit.
Mr Aneurin Bevan: ...be exceedingly pleasant news for the country that, instead of children being in hospital, they are now going to school in greater and greater numbers, largely due, once more, to the maternity and child welfare services, of which, I am glad to say, the women of Great Britain now take full advantage. There is no more pleasant sight to be seen in the world than can be seen outside a...
Mr John Profumo: ...hon. Friend replied explains that the figures are unreliable. I am not denying the general tendency, but it ought to be put in its right relationship. Now I should like to say a few words about child welfare clinics. At the present dine it is only in the more sophisticated areas of the Protectorate that parents are willing to use child welfare clinics as distinct from sick children's...
Mrs Mary McAlister: ...cases in Glasgow, a matter which, on account of the unsatisfactory housing conditions still obtaining in many districts, is causing concern to those responsible for the conduct of maternity and child welfare services in the City; and if he will undertake to ensure that a fair proportion of the beds which are no longer required for the treatment of tuberculosis will be allocated for this...
Mr Arthur Moyle: ...have been nurtured in the legal nursery. 2.15 p.m. On the question of experience, we have heard a great deal from my hon. Friend the Member for Widnes (Mr. MacColl), whose work in the field of child welfare is so well known that it needs no emphasis. His work as chairman of his own bench is well known also. There is no need to enhance the status of the juvenile court on a level which...
Mr James MacColl: ..., should be the chief object of the court's consideration. That is why we are all so grateful to my hon. Friend for having introduced the Bill, which is probably as important a contribution to child welfare on the preventive side as anything which could be done in the present situation. I warmly support my hon. Friend. I hope that I shall have an opportunity for a first-class row with him...
Mrs Lena Jeger: ...while there are fewer facilities for mothers to put their children in day nurseries there is no decrease in the number of mothers going out to work, and does not this raise a serious question of child welfare?
Mr Gilbert Mitchison: ...the education authorities throughout the country, because seven-eighths of the expenditure in this general grant is educational expenditure. But it is not only expenditure on education. It includes child welfare, health, Part III accommodation—smaller services as a matter of expenditure, but things which represent the most intimate and the most necessary services both from a local and...
Maternity and Child Welfare Clinic, Middlesbrough
Mr Denis Howell: ...in its manufacture. So I am justified in saying that whether this Bill becomes law or not there is no room for saving. We come now to health and education. First on the list under health is the child welfare service. Nobody would suggest cutting down on that. The question of cutting down on dental services does not apply, because no local authority can get dentists. I know that hon....
Mr Hilary Marquand: ...that the Minister ought now to print a new issue of special leaflets which would be distributed to mothers by the midwives who visit them or whom they visit during pregnancy, by the maternity and child welfare clinics which they visit, post-natal and ante-natal, and by the hospital management committees, so that when babies are born in hospitals or when babies are born at home or when...
Mr Harold Macmillan: ...me in that view. For these local questions, after all, in some ways most closely affect the lives of the people. The local services include the local health services, the maternity services, the child welfare services, as well as, of course, the schools. None of these, on which the welfare and the development of family life depends, can succeed unless they are built upon a sound and...
Mr John Cronin: ...Salk vaccine. As I said, this is available for import from the United States, Canada and Australia. The Minister did announce at the annual conference of the National Association of Maternity and Child Welfare on 26th June that he accepted expert medical advice that Britain should not run the risk of importing poliomyelitis vaccine. I think that the Minister is to a certain extent...
Mr James McInnes: ...serve? What is the admitted effect of it so far as Scotland is concerned? We are told that in place of the specific grants given at present which cover not only education but other services, such as child welfare, the fire service and many others, there is now to be this single grant of £37 million. That is precisely the figure for education alone, so, in essence, we are getting no grant...
Mr Dennis Vosper: Yes, Sir. Suggestions were made to local health authorities on methods of developing their maternity and child welfare dental services by circular issued in June, 1955. In both the local authority and the general dental service there has been a marked increase in the amount of conservative treatment for young people under 21 and for expectant mothers. The McNair Report, with its emphasis on...
Mrs Harriet Slater: ...the health of children and mothers. That was a preventive measure, and I consider that to cut that in any way would be a disgrace to any Government in the present age. Let us look at maternity and child welfare services. I have spent a long time as a member of a local authority. In the early days of my service as a local councillor, we had in cities like Stoke-on-Trent very high maternal...
Mr John Boyd-Carpenter: Special steps are taken to spread this information by means of posters displayed in local National Insurance offices, ante-natal clinics and child welfare clinics, and by the issue of explanatory leaflets to all expectant mothers applying for welfare foods. If the hon. Member has any further suggestions for publicity, I will gladly consider them.
Miss Joan Vickers: ...my right hon. Friend for that reply, may I ask if he is in consultation with countries such as Japan, where the figures have fallen? Is he aware of the Hamburg scheme, run in connection with the child welfare clinics, which has proved so beneficial in this type of case?