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Attendances at Borough Council's Dental Clinic 74
Attendances at Borough Council's Immunisation
Clinics 6
Attendances at Hampstead Council of Social Service
Infant Welfare Centres and Toddlers' Clinics 391
Miscellaneous visits 419
Approximately 72 per cent. of the infants under one year of age
visited for the first time attended the Infant Welfare Centres during
1938.
At every first visit a letter, giving in detail the various facilities
of the Council relating to Maternity and Child Welfare, together with
certain literature, is given to the mothers, and this letter and literature
is sent by post to those border line cases in which it is not easy to
decide whether or not a visit is desirable.
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Active co-operation exists between the officers of National Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the officers of the
Public Health Department, as and when the occasion demands.
Fortunately, these cases are extremely rare. The Society advises this
department of cases of pre-school children in which they are interested,
whilst we advise the Society of cases in which a visit from their
Inspector would appear to be desirable.
Student Health Visitors.
During the year two student health visitors from the College of
Nursing, preparing for the examination for the Health Visitors'
Certificate, have received instruction. They attend at the Public
Health Department two or three times a week for a period of six
weeks : accompany the health visitors in their routine visits : attend at
the Municipal Clinics and Tuberculosis Dispensary and visit the
voluntary Infant Welfare Centres. The College of Nursing pays to
the Borough Council a fee of £1 1s. 0d. for each student so instructed.
Ante-natal Clinics.
Two Ante-natal Clinics in the Borough are provided and maintained
by the Borough Council, namely:—