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Clinics.
At the beginning of 1931 there were three Municipal Clinics,
including the recently opened Grange Road Clinic, and seven
Voluntary Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics. At the end of
April, 1931, two other Municipal Clinics were officially opened,
the first sessions for work being held in the middle of May. These
three new Clinics supply districts at some considerable distance
from the already existing Clinics: two of them—Grange Road and
Maybury Road Clinics—have been erected in the centre of two of
the Council's housing estates. They were urgently required, and
already have proved of great value to the mothers with young
children living in the districts surrounding the Clinics. At each
of the five Municipal Clinics, antenatal and infant welfare sessions
are held weekly; dental treatment for expectant and nursing
mothers and for young children is arranged through the Clinics
and carried out at the three new Clinics, each of which has a wellequipped
dental department. Antenatal sessions are held at four
of the Voluntary Clinics, and dental treatment is also carried out
at the Plaistow Maternity Hospital for mothers and children
attending their Clinics. One or more infant welfare sessions are
held weekly at all Voluntary Clinics.
Postnatal Clinics. It has not been found possible with the
existing Municipal staff to establish separate postnatal sessions
at the Municipal Clinics, but mothers are encouraged to report
for such advice at the antenatal sessions.
Clinics for the Pre-School Child. The toddler is examined
at the ordinary infant welfare session, when it is pointed out to the
mother the importance of keeping a young child under regular
medical supervision till it enters school, in order to prevent the
development of defects and minor maladies or to obtain early
treatment if such are detected.
The second full-time Assistant Medical Officer for Maternity
and Child Welfare commenced work on 1st September, 1931; six
additional Health Visitors and a full-time Dental Nurse began
work in April, 1931.
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