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After careful consideration the Council authorised the establishment
of two such clinics weekly, one to be held at 110 Grange
Road and one at 98 Rotherhithe New Road. These clinics were
opened early in July and particulars of the attendances are
appended.
A report was approved by the Council in October authorising
the establishment of two Health Centres, one in Rotherhithe and
one in Bermondsey, the Housing Committee having kindly
agreed to allocate two new flats to the Maternity and Child
Welfare Committee or this purpose. It is intended to use these
centres for a variety of purposes.
1. Infant Welfare Centres.—One Health Visitor will attend
daily from 9.30 to 10.30 a.m. to see mothers and babies
and weigh babies, if necessary, and to give such advice
as is within her province and ordinarily given by her at
any infant welfare clinic. When necessary she will
make appointments for mothers to see the doctor at the
next ordinary infant welfare centre in the district. She
will also see and advise ante-natal patients and make
appointments for such patients to see the doctor at the
ante-natal clinic.
2. Toddlers' Play Centres.—These are intended to take up
to a maximum of twelve children between the ages of
one and five years, the object being to take care of these
children for short periods not exceeding three hours, so
as to free the mother. It is not intended to take care of
children whose mothers go out to work.
3. Domestic Teaching.—Arrangements will be made for
demonstrations in home management, budgetting and
cookery to be given at these centres from time to time.
4. Foot Clinic.—One session each week will be held at each
centre.
5. Invalid Children. —Many children suffer from sequelae
following infectious diseases; a certain number of these
children make very slow recoveries and require examination
and sometimes prolonged convalescent treatment.
Clinics for the examination of such children will be held
at intervals.
It is hoped that these centres will be opened by the end of
February or the beginning of March next year,