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Home Help Scheme was abandoned on the 28th August, 1943
owing to inability to obtain suitable persons to do the work, despite
increase in the remuneration offered.
BIRTH CONTROL
During the year your Medical Officers have been prepared to
give advice on this subject in accordance with the authority given
by the Minister of Health in memorandum 153 M. and C.W. and
Circulars 128 and 1408.
CIRCULATION OF BOOKLET ON REARING
OF CHILDREN.
The booklet "To Mothers and Fathers" was circulated as
heretofore.
ANTE-NATAL CLINICS.
During the year 2,202 mothers attended the Enfield AnteNatal
Clinics. This number included some mothers whose confinement
had not taken place by the end of the year.
POST-NATAL CLINICS.
During the course of the year 447 mothers attended for examination
after their confinement. This compares with 376 in 1942
and 218 in 1941.
This examination takes place by appointment six weeks after
the confinement and is an attempt to secure that a complete recovery
to normal health has been made.
Appointments are given to all those mothers whose confinement
has been conducted under the responsibility of one of the
Council's Midwives and also to those whose confinement took
place in the North Middlesex County Hospital.
Appointments are not made where the confinement has been
conducted by a private practitioner.
The attendance of 447 mothers represents about a 40 per cent,
acceptance. This is an encouraging figure although it is not as
high as it should be.
INFANT WELFARE CENTRES.
The total number of children who made their first attendance
at the Infant Welfare Clinics was 1,822.