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Advice to parents as to over-clothing and over-crowding
is always given, but its importance is frequently not understood,
and the education of parents in the potential advantages
of fresh air and cleanliness is unfortunately a slow
process. At the same time, overcrowding and the lack of
adequate larder accommodation will, it is hoped, be to some
extent eliminated when the housing scheme has been
brought into complete operation which, it is hoped, will
have the effect of removing those factors which contribute
so largely to pneumonia and enteritis.
Infant Welfare Clinics are held at seven centres in the
Borough. Of these, five are controlled by the Council and
are situated in Glenthorne Road, Old Oak, Becklow Boad,
Thornfield Road, and Milson Boad, and two by Voluntary
Associations at Latimer Boad and College Park. The
Borough Council is responsible for the medical staff at each
of the centres and also for the staff of Health Visitors.
The attendances at all the Clinics have increased, and
all children within the borough are encouraged to attend
their nearest centre until they atttain school age.
All children are weighed and seen by the doctor at
regular intervals, and such conditions as malnutrition,
rickets and anæmia are treated in the appropriate manner.
Extra food, including milk and dinners, cod liver oil and
certain massage and remedial exercises are also available.
When other physical defects are diagnosed, the patients are
referred to their own doctor or afforded facilities for attendance
at hospital.
Toddlers' Clinics are held weekly at Glenthorne Boad
and Old Oak, and the number of attendances has increased
during the year. Parents are advised to have all children
over the age of one year immunized against diphtheria
and are advised to attend their own doctor for this treatment,
but if they have no medical attendant the treatment