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Family Planning Sessions.
Advice on Family Planning, for married women for whom further pregnancy would be
detrimental to health, is provided at Parsons Green, Glenthorne Road, and Greyhound Road
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres. 1,454 attendances have been made during the year.
Creches.
The occasional care of children outside their own homes was provided by two creches,
in Borough premises, for a total of five sessions per week. An additional session is planned at
Greyhound Road Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Day Nurseries.
The demand for day nursery accommodation remained constant, and the total attendances
in Borough Day Nurseries in 1965 was 79,972. The service was marked by the high occupation of
the places available; the average daily attendance in the 7 Borough nurseries being 82%.
The acquisition of the freehold of Grove House Day Nursery made it possible to carry out
urgently needed structural alterations and improvements, which necessitated limited admissions.
Restricted admissions were unavoidably necessary at other nurseries, due to shortage of nursery
nurses. Training places for student nursery nurses have been increased to 24. A survey of available
mechanical aids to reduce the work load of domestic staff in nurseries, was carried out in
October 1965, and the necessary equipment has been supplied.
Borough Child Minders' Scheme-
At 31 December, 1965, there were 22 child minders registered under the Nurseries and
Child Minders Registration Act, 1948,to mind 100 children, excluding their own; and three premises
accommodating a total of 54 children were also registered under the Act.
In addition, 44 other child minders were approved, each to mind not more than two children,
for whom they were receiving a registration fee of 6/- per week at 31 December, 1965. At
that date they were minding a total of 63 children.
Scheme for reporting Congenital Malformations.
The scheme depends on the notification to the Medical Officer of Health and Welfare of
any malformation observed at birth by the doctor or midwife notifying the birth, and is required
by Section 203, Public Health Act, 1936. The Medical Officer of Health is also required to send
to the General Register Office a return for every child in his area of whom he has received information
of malformation observed at birth.
During 1965 notifications of 62 such cases were received and, of this number, 50 were
mild and remediable e.g. vestigial digits, mild talipes responding to physiotherapy, umbilical
hernia, and similar conditions.
Details of the remaining malformations are:
Still births
3 cases of anencephalus.
1 case of corneal opacity.
Live births
1 case of spina bifida.
1 case of severe talipes
3 cases of cleft palate, (one died)
1 case of absent left forearm.
1 case of anal atresia, (colostomy).
1 case of a Mongol.
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