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The total numbers of patients (including non-borough residents) dealt
with at the Family Planning Association's clinics in Kensington and Chelsea
during the year are summarised as follows:-
Number
of new
patients
during
year
Total
number of
patients
(old and
new)
Total
clinic
sessions
Total
doctors'
sessions
North Kensington Marriage
Welfare Centre,
Telford Road
2,778
6,075
636
1,138
Kensington Clinic,
9 Holland Street
225
395
51
51
Chelsea Clinic,
Violet Melchett
287
371
51
51
Chelsea Clinic,
St. Stephen's Hospital
811
1,648
100
251
TOTALS
4,101
8,489
838
1,491
Family Planning at St, Mary's (Harrow Road) Hospital.
About three hundred borough residents are confined annually in St,
Mary's (Harrow Road) Hospital and, in June, 1968, it was agreed that they
should be included in arrangements made by Westminster City Council and
the hospital authorities to introduce family planning to patients while
they are still in hospital,
A health visitor of the Westminster City Council visits recently
delivered women in the maternity wards and discusses family planning with
tham if a woman then requests contraceptive advice, she is given an
appointment at an adjoining Westminster City Council clinic. She is given
advice and an initial supply of contraceptives and is then referred to the
appropriate Family Planning Association clinic in this borough for followup
and further treatment.
The great advantage of the arrangement is that family planning can
be discussed when the patient is free from domestic and other duties, and
is in a receptive frame of mind and more likely to benefit from the advice
given,
MARRIAGE GUIDANCE.
Grants were again made by the Council to the under-mentioned
organisations in respect of their work with residents of the borough
during the year :-
£
London Marriage Guidance Council 650
Catholic Marriage Advisory Council 375
Facilities continued to be provided free of charge at the Lancaster
Road Welfare Centre, 63 Lancaster Road, W.11., and at the South
Kensington Welfare Centre, 10 Redcliffe Street, S.W. 10., for a weekly
session at each centre for the London Marriage Guidance Council.