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All these lectures were well attended and very popular; and copies of the
recipes used by the demonstrators were prepared for distribution and were much
appreciated.
During the year there was also a ready sale for the " Mothers' Cookery
Book," newly published by the National League for Maternity and Child Welfare.
This was purchased on terms which enabled it to be sold at a cost of 2d. per
copy.
We have endeavoured to use pictures and mottoes dealing with health as
much as possible. The Health Visitors are to be congratulated on the interesting
and useful home.made posters they have designed. A set was shown in the
Hygiene Exhibition at Wembley during the year 1924.
In addition to the health talk, assistance is given in the cutting out of
garments; patterns of the most suitable woven garments are given away, also
directions for making knitted garments and advice as to the choice of suitable
materials. Three hundred and eighty.nine hanks of wool of a superior quality
obtained from Wales were sold at cost price to the value of £20 5s. 2½d.
The maternity bags have been used during the year by seven mothers.
An outing was arranged for about 50 mothers. most of whom carried infants
in arms, and 37 older children below school age, during the summer to Bricket
Wood. The costs of the fares of some of the mothers were defrayed in part from
money collected by private subscriptions.
Ante.natal Hygiene.
During the last four years, enquiries were made of mothers as to their
attendance at an ante.natal centre immediately previous to the birth of the
child visited. Of 1.943 cases, about whom information was obtained, 712 (37
per cent.) were found to have attended Ante.natal Centres or received ante.natal
care as under:—
1022.
1923.
1924.
1925.
4 years,
1922 25.
Number of enquiries made 54 1 481 495 423 1,943
Centre Attended—
Municipal Centre, 10, John Street 33 33 31 17 114
Royal Free Hospital 23 19 34 34 110
Middlesex Hospital 29 29 41 33 32
Charing Cross Hospital 10 18 34 30 97
University College Hospital 12 5 18 16 51
Myddelton Square Institution 11 5 12 20 48
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 8 8 18 21 57
City of London Hospital 3 3 10 10 26
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 3 2 6 8 19
Other Centrea 12 8 12 6 38
Ante.natal care from private doctor 1 4 3 12 20
145 134 219 214 712