Excerpt from The Child Welfare Movement

This work is intended to be a handbook for those who wish to understand something of the machinery for the conduct of work for Maternity and Child Welfare.

It makes no effort to be a comprehensive text-book on either Local Government or Child Hygiene in any of its branches. These matters form part of the framework of the book, but the aim has been to give only such aspects of both these subjects as appeared necessary for an intelligent understanding of the work under consideration.

The book has been written under pressure of other work, which has rendered much revision of the original manuscript impossible for lack of time. The subject matter of the book has been dealt with for some time past in lectures to students of the Household and Social Science Department of Kings College for Women. Now that the College is undertaking the training of health visitors under the recent Board of Education Regulations, a short text-book on matters with which all health visitors should be familiar seemed opportune, and the request to write a handbook served to supply the necessary stimulus. The opinions expressed have been formed primarily as a result of four years work practically all over the country, when serving as Medical Inspector for Child Welfare under the Local Government Board.

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