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Maternity & Child Welfare.
Infant Welfare Centres.—712 sessions, 31,468 attendances.
Ante-Natal Clinics.—235 sessions, 2,864 attendances.
Mothercraft Classes.—299 meetings, 3,683 attendances.
845 cases were referred to hospitals, etc., from the Welfare Centres,
and 2,859 visits were paid at the request of various hospitals.
Milk.—180,636 pints of liquid milk, and 3,156 pounds of
dried milk were supplied to 1,902 persons, 78.4 per cent, free, and
21.6 per cent. at reduced prices. Cost involved £3,099.
Dental Clinic.—252 sessions, 2,837 attendances, 393 new
patients.
Unmarried Mothers.—The usual grant of £150 was made to
the Southwark Diocesan Association. 16 Battersea mothers were
admitted to their Homes and stayed for 1,574 days.
Home Helps.—8 cases. Cost to Council, £9 13s. Od.
Maternal Mortality.—4 deaths (1 from puerperal sepsis and
3 from other puerperal causes), giving a maternal mortality rate
of 2.03 per 1,000 births, live and still.
St. Thomas's Babies Hostel.—Transferred to Wiltshire on the
outbreak of War. Test feed cases 164, Total attendances 485,
In-patients 29 (11 mothers, 18 babies).
Nursing.—The District Nurses under contract with the
Council paid 6,075 visits to 666 cases, of which 290 were patients
suffering from infectious disease.
Artificial Light Treatment.—113 Sessions, 88 Patients, 2,290
attendances.
Massage.—152 sessions, 1,219 attendances, 55 new patients.
St. Margaret's Day Nursery.—Evacuated on the outbreak of
War with 29 children, including those from the Guest House.
From January to August the number of children admitted was
54, and they made 3,491 attendances.
Toddlers' Clinics were continued until the outbreak of War.
Up to that date 729 cases were seen, and of these, 215 showed
defects; defective teeth not being counted for this purpose.
Child Life Protection.—95 foster-mothers were still on the
register at the end of 1939, but only 33 of these had nurse-children
(to the number of 41) in their care. The Health Visitors paid
725 visits to foster-mothers.