View report page

66
Work at Centres.
Holborn Centre, 10, John Street.
The following is an analysis of the attendance at this Municipal Centre:
Monday.
Tuesday.
Wednesday
Thursday.
Friday.
Medical
Consultation
Pre-school
child
2—4.30 p.m.
Dentist.
2—4 p.m.
Ante-natal
and Postnatal
cases
2—4.30 p.m.
Medical
Consultation
2—1.30 p.m.
Class
3—4 p.m.
Medical
Consultation
2—4.30 p.m.
So. of Sessions
49
54
53
50
39
51
Total attendances —
Children
795
117
2114
1114
Mothers
67
243
170
392
630
222
Average weekly
attendances —
Children
16
2
42
21
Mothers
1
5
3
8
14
4
St. Giles' Centre, Shout's Gardens.
The attendances at this Branch Centre during the year 1937 were as
follows:—
Thursday—Medical Consultation—2—4.30 p.m.
No. of Sessions 52
Total attendances—Children 814
Mothers 97
Hxpectant Mothers 21
Average weekly attendances 18
The total number of attendances made by the Health Visitors at the Municipal
Centres in 1037 was 461 and in addition Health Visitor students made 105
attendances at the Municipal Centres.
At the Holborn Centre, No. 10, John Street, 4,892 attendances were made by
298 mothers and expectant mothers; and 462 children of whom 218 were under
one year, 77 between one and two years old, and 167 aged 2-5 years on the date
of their first attendance.
At the St. Giles' Centre, Short's Gardens, 932 attendances were made by 47
mothers and 104 children, of whom 63 were under one year, 10 from one to two
years and 31 between two and five years.
Ante-natal Hygiene.
Under the scheme for the voluntary notification of pregnancy which came into
force in January, 1928, 40 voluntary notifications were received during 1937 as
compared with 51 in 1936. All these expectant mothers, as well as those already
known to the Health Visitors through other sources, were visited in their homes
and informed, both verbally and by means of a leaflet, of the special facilities
available in Holborn; they also received instruction in the hygiene of pregnancy,
and if not already in attendance at an ante-natal centre they were advised to
attend,