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Number of
Sessions
held 1936.
Number of
individual children
attending these
Sessions.
Infant Welfare Centre.
Total
Attendances.
Amott Road
49
480
1,133
Bird-in-Bush
47
322
636
Reference is made elsewhere in this report to the proposed
establishment of Toddlers' Consultation Clinics at the Municipal
Infant Welfare Centres for an experimental period of six months.
It is intended that the medical supervision of toddlers at these
clinics should follow on the lines of the school medical examination,
particular attention being directed to such matters as weight,
nutrition, appetite, diet, clothing, sleep, hygiene, exercise, physical
and mental development, behaviour and habits.
This scheme will provide the parents of toddlers Math an
opportunity of obtaining information as to the progress and
health of their children, and it remains to be seen whether they
will avail themselves of the facilities offered by the Council.
Home Nursing.
The several District Nursing Associations in the Borough undertake
the home nursing of cases referred to them by medical
practitioners and the Public Health Department.
No grant is made by the Council to these Nursing Associations,
but payment of one shilling per visit, less any contributions received
by the Nursing Association from the patient, is paid by the Council
to each of the associations, with the exception of the East Dulwich
and Dulwich Village Nursing Association, who have not approached
the Council for payment for their services, for the nursing of specified
ailments in children under five years, such as measles, whooping
cough, epidemic diarrhoea and diseases notifiable under the Public
Health Infectious Diseases (London) Regulations, 1927.
The following table provides particulars of the cases nursed
and the number of visits paid by the nurses of these associations
on behalf of the Council during the year 1936.
Disease.
Number of
Cases Nursed.
Number of
Visits Paid.
Maternity Nursing
34
568
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
30
568
Measles
65
699
Whooping Cough
2
26
Pneumonia
32
543