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and at Creek Road Welfare Centre respectively—the former at
the special request of the London County Council. These
sessions were well attended and were obviously in areas where
many, who needed advice on planning their families, were
unaware of the help which could be given by the Family Planning
Association. Again advice on other marital problems, such
as infertility, was also offered and cervical smears for diagnostic
cytology were taken from a number of patients.
Where pregnancy is considered to be detrimental to a woman's
health or when, for other medical reasons, advice on contraception
becomes necessary, payment of the Family Planning fees may be
undertaken by the local authority. During 1965, 77 such patients
were aided in this way.
Several meetings took place between the Medical Officer of
Health and Officers of the Family Planning Association where
matters of policy and financial help to the organisation were
discussed and the friendly relationship between the Association
and the Local Authority was reinforced.

*A subfertility clinic saw 28 new patients during the year and
there were 49 repeat attendances.
† This clinic was established to cater for the particular circumstances
of families accommodated at this Reception Centre.
Since 1st April, 1965, it has been the Council's policy to
reduce the number of families to a minimum and accordingly,
the scope of this clinic has become correspondingly more
limited. However, as a result of consultations, it has been
agreed that families, which although not homeless are nevertheless
living in similar circumstances, would in future be
referred to the clinic by health visitors and other social
workers in the area.
NOTE : An Intra Uterine Contraceptive Device sub-clinic of
the Greenwich Branch, based at Lewisham Hospital,
was established in July and some 140 patients had
been seen by March 1966.