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Fulham School for Mothers—
Two Branches at 90 and 92, Greyhound Road,
and 170, Wandsworth Bridge Road.
Children up to school age are seen at the Consultations
held three times a week by three salaried
doctors, and are visited at their homes by the superintendent
and her assistant, both of whom are
trained nurses and are qualified as Health Visitors.
In 1914, 621 children, who made 7,631 attendances,
were seen by the doctors, and 3,371 visits were paid
by the nurses.
Formerly the children did not attend the Consultations
after they were twelve months old, but the
necessity for bridging over the interval between infancy
and school age was so apparent that now arrangements
have been made for bringing them up
at intervals for medical inspection until they enter
school, and those of the elder children, whose teeth
require attention or who have enlarged tonsils or
adenoids requiring operation are now treated at the
Fulham School Treatment Centre.
It will be seen that the children attending the Consultations
now receive skilled supervision from infancy
until they enter school, when they come under
the charge of the School Doctors and the Care
Committee. The total expenditure of the Fulham
School for Mothers is now about £900 a year.
Ante-Natal Clinic.—Arrangements have also
lately been made for an Ante-natal Clinic to
be held once a fortnight at 92, Greyhound Road, by
two of the doctors attending the Consultations.
There is every prospect of securing the co-operation
of midwives practising in Fulham, and in that event
the Clinic should meet a much-needed want.