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Child Welfare.

Brookfield House, adjoining the Town Hall, is the main Welfare Centre,
but is inadequate for the work required to be carried on there. At the present
time a movement is on foot to secure a more desirable Town Hall, with a
properly built and equipped centre occupying a portion of the ground floor.
This cannot come too quickly, for the work is steadily increasing.
At the same time, owing to a very large increase in the number of
houses being built on the outskirts of the district, it is hoped that Branch
Centres will be established in the Northern and in the South-Western areas.
It is a wonder to me that so many mothers do conscientiously attend
this Clinic, especially in the summer months, when the afternoon sun beats
down on the building making it intolerably hot, in addition to a very heavy
tram and motor traffic immediately outside.
It will be realised that the attendances, in order to make an average
of 97, must on some days reach well above 100; on some occasions they rise
to over 120, and it is not difficult to imagine the strenuous time which occurs
at these particular sessions.
My own experience is that 80 is the maximum number for a session ;
above that number, it becomes unwieldy.
Dental Clinic.
This is held once weekly at Pymmes Park School Clinic.
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