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REPORT ON MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
SERVICES.
Dr. F. M. Parsons, the Assistant Medical Officer, has made the
following report on the Maternity and Child Welfare Services:—
Child Welfare.
Child Welfare sessions continue to be held at six centres, thus
serving every part of the Borough. At the Parish Room and
Western Road Centres two sessions are held each month. At the
Cavendish Road, Meopham Road and St. Barnabas Centres four
sessions are held each month.
At the Sherwood Park Centre, where formerly two sessions
were held each month, an increased number of sessions was felt to
be urgently needed, and arrangements were therefore made to open a
morning session there. This was done on April 4, 1936, and two
morning sessions have been held there each month since that date,
in addition to two afternoon ones. This morning clinic was in the
nature of an experiment, and grew so rapidly and has proved so
successful that it gives the answer to the critics who say that
" mothers will not bring their babies to a morning clinic," and I am
including in this report the figures for the Sherwood Park morning
clinics for the first six months, showing how from a small beginning
the clinic grew.